Common Ground arises from the discovery of pink-tinted salt lagoons in three places as far away as Australia, Mexico or the salt flats of Torrevieja (Alicante). This phenomenon is generated by an algae under the effects of extreme heat and high salinity., and is the starting point of a project that explores the physical, the geological and the perceptual. The proposal, framed in a sea of salt on the living room floor, It begins with a multichannel video with aerial images that show an abstract landscape in constant transformation and advances towards the material on large-format canvases., to which it transfers these chromatic mutations through heat processes, humidity and sedimentation.
The artist traces a landscape in permanent change with a poetic and scientific gaze at the same time., that invites us to recognize that we are part of nature and not mere spectators at a time of global environmental crisis. Pink lagoons become visual indicators of human impact and the constant transformation of the planet, provoking a reflection on our place in it. Vilabelda establishes a dialogue between painting, landscape and time, which culminates in this exhibition that is the result of 5 years of research.
