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Marcella Barceló
Mayahuel

Year 2023

Medium UltraChrome pigment print on Canson Rag Photographique 310g

Dimensions 70 x 50 cm.

Edition 20 + 3 AP

Marcella Barcelo's work also often includes self-portrait elements such as autobiographical references to her youth. These floating, dreamlike compositions recall a rich variety of art historical echoes. A disturbing metaphorical strangeness emerges from Marcella Barceló’s canvases, which stems from an aesthetic of elusive nature of the sensible world that she got from her multiple trips to Japan.

The edition produced as part of the Je est un autre exhibition at Château La Coste takes up an iconography frequently used by the artist. Here, is represented Mayahuel, the goddess of fertility and abundance in Aztec mythology, posed naked in an abundant natural environment. By personifying her in a universal way and looking like emerging from an animated plant, Marcella Barceló works on the reinterpretation of ancient myths to modernize them. Her use of colors, as usual, invokes an enchanted world, on the edge of the unreal.