24/09/2026
CALIPSO
Oil on arches paper on aluminium
30.5 × 25.4 CM
Regina Parra draws on mythology and pagan symbology across her paintings, performances, and installations to reclaim the female body from patriarchal narratives. Her recent series reflects a profound engagement with both Greek and Latin American mythologies, focusing on states of ecstatic liberation and female power.
In these works, ripe fruits—figs, pomegranates, plums—are submerged in milk, split open, and rendered in lush tones of vermilion and burgundy. Their voluptuous forms echo the curves of the human body, often juxtaposed with the artist’s own hands, punctuated by navels or fibrous leaves—sensual markers that blur the boundary between fruit and flesh. This sensuous interplay evokes the porous body’s experience of overflowing, of losing itself in presence—a temporary continuity with the whole, just before returning to one’s own edges. There is, perhaps, a quiet suggestion of the relationship between near-death and the little death, the erotic as a threshold experience.
Join us for the opening of Monochrome
8 October | 6-8 pm
Via appointment only: [email protected]
