DÉSIR, by Mayte Vieta in La Mercè

Desire reveals an instinctive response, the direct connection between the universe and the souls of those who inhabit it. DÉSIR, an exhibition by the La Mercè Cultural Center and the Vila Casas Foundation, evokes ancient words: Desiderare , to expect something from the stars. And it is that these mundane bodies presented by Mayte Vieta are nothing more than desiring bodies that yearn for the secrets of the universe. Alba Feito, in the exhibition Desire is a line that does not end , at the creation center La Panera, already flagged "las cuerpas desiantes", these souls prepared to expand through enjoyment.

Among the installations, El universo será más oscuro sin ti , a photographic series on paper that portrays a sensitive and luminous Aphrodite. The beauty and desire of the goddess, death and life in a journey both pleasant and monstrous. Greek mythology explains that from the union between the golden goddess and Hephaestus, god of craftsmen, art is born. Vieta's exhibition gathers the ideal light to accompany birds that are released, in the installation De Su amada memoria , branches, shadows and stairs, in the drawing of the Greek marriage: the stellar contemplation that creates change . Among the selection of works, Scars and Animals of Time, which apart from a smile in memory of the Dalinian elephants, are shown as a vessel for the imagination as a cause of his desire for the future. The curator of the exhibition, Natalia Chocarro, stated that "Also for Mayte Vieta, the imagination becomes a catalyst for images containing emotions.

Throughout the exhibition, Vieta's simplicity, framed in the material diversity, accompanies the viewer in an attempt to immerse him in the waters of his own unconscious, Espai intim 1 (1990), the oldest work that Vita shows in the proposal. "I had to survive in waters in which I never swam," Kafka asserted in Metamorphoses. The viewer is in front of the intimate container of life and death to honor the previous conversation, and to let himself die, to continue living.