'Lo Fruit': reflections on femininity at the Terra Museum

Sculptor Natàlia Ferré invites you to explore the momentous role of women in different key moments in the Mediterranean, using her work as a vehicle for reflection. In the exhibition 'Lo Fruit', at the Museu Terra de l'Espluga de Francolí, the artist from Tarragona combines past and present, creation and destruction, life and death, using the symbolic pomegranate as the guiding thread of a narrative that it speaks of fertility, passion, fragility and rebirth.

In the exhibition, open to the public until January 5, 2025, Ferré's sculptural works transport us to three specific historical moments: the Neolithic, Ancient Greece and the Renaissance. With this temporary selection, Ferré wants to highlight how the female figure has been central, but also how, over time, it has been losing importance in the cultural and historical narrative of the Mediterranean.

In the words of the artist: "I have taken three moments that I love and that reflect the creation of life, life itself and death. Throughout the tour the visitor will be accompanied by the pomegranate, a very Mediterranean fruit and symbol of death and resurrection. sensuality and passion, fecundity and fertility. A regenerative and wonderful fruit very present in mythology and in our culture."

'Lo Fruit'

The first part of the exhibition, El Tot, focuses on the Neolithic, a time when women played a fundamental role as creators and perpetuators of life. It is in this context that women tame nature, cultivate plants, raise animals, and become a source of life and continuity. This era becomes a tribute to women as agents of change, transformers and preservers of the community.

In La Sensuality, Ferré takes us to Ancient Greece, a key period in the formation of Western culture. Here, the sculptor delves into mythology, focusing on the deities Aphrodite, Demeter and Persephone, to talk about life, fertility and agriculture, three aspects that become symbols of the life cycle and the relationship between women and nature

Finally, in El Dol, the artist immerses himself in the Renaissance, a bright era, marked by humanism, but also by the loss of innocence and the acceptance of the fragility of life. This part of the exhibition becomes a deep reflection on death and the transience of existence, where Ferré explores loss, but also the hope of resurrection and regeneration, always under the symbolic gaze of the pomegranate.

'Lo Fruit' is not just an exhibition of sculptures; is a visual and sensorial story about the historical and cultural importance of women and where art becomes a means to recover and claim their fundamental role throughout the centuries.

Natàlia Ferré