The Thema Gallery hosts the new exhibition by the Alicante artist Teté Durá (castella, 1962), which opens on Friday 28 November at 19:00 h in its exhibition space in the city of Valencia (C/ Cirilo Amorócos 87). The exhibition can be visited until 3 January 2026.
Fruit of a long and close relationship between the gallery and Teté Durá, lThe new exhibition brings together 11 original large format paintings focused on the representation of women's faces what, under the title of Saladula, transmit through gaze and expression a deep reflection on the inner strength, the resilience and the processes of female transformation.
With an expressive and powerful style, Teté Durá explores how women's identity is constructed, breaks down and puts itself back together in a continuous cycle of personal evolution. His works stand out for their chromatic intensity, the emotional charge and visual magnetism that characterizes his most recent artistic production. The women of Teté They are portraits that emerge from the union of fragments of plant matter on a wooden support. Durá escapes uniformity to give way to texture, Thus, the material assumes the task of reinforcing its poetics..
“Painting female faces is for me a way of telling universal stories of courage.”, change and reconstruction, says the artist. “Each of these pieces keeps a gesture, an energy and an experience that connects with those who observe it.”
Saladula It is the scenario of the impossible, of risk and illusion: the circus. On this occasion Teté Durá transforms it into symbolic territory to talk about them: They show themselves in a genuine way, with the purity of what they feel. These new women from Teté that you can visit in Thema from Friday 28 of November, They move from the carnal to the metaphysical and spiritual, with an aspiration of beauty and perpetuity.
