Original artwork description:

My pictorial research explores the relationship between space, memory, and matter, drawing from multidisciplinary approaches rooted in philosophy, poetry, geography, and geology. I paint to trace matter within memory, to observe how past gestures remain on the surface and evoke the way memory overlays our perception of the world. Each layer in my paintings is an imprint of what has been and continues to resonate. I do not seek to represent, but rather to allow things to reveal themselves through proximity and context, letting the painting speak through its own marks and show how things coexist and transform.
Painting thus becomes a threshold that articulates space and time, marking rhythms and transitions with its own temporality: a living time that marks, preserves, and accumulates. Through this process, I seek to capture those places where each pictorial trace reflects the paradoxical attempt of the finite to contain the infinite.

Materials used:

Oil on Canvas

Shivers of Light (2025) Oil painting
by Erika Cárdenas

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My pictorial research explores the relationship between space, memory, and matter, drawing from multidisciplinary approaches rooted in philosophy, poetry, geography, and geology. I paint to trace matter within memory, to observe how past gestures remain on the surface and evoke the way memory overlays our perception of the world. Each layer in my paintings is an imprint of what has been and continues to resonate. I do not seek to represent, but rather to allow things to reveal themselves through proximity and context, letting the painting speak through its own marks and show how things coexist and transform.
Painting thus becomes a threshold that articulates space and time, marking rhythms and transitions with its own temporality: a living time that marks, preserves, and accumulates. Through this process, I seek to capture those places where each pictorial trace reflects the paradoxical attempt of the finite to contain the infinite.

Materials used:

Oil on Canvas

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Erika Cárdenas (1996, Mexico). Lives and works in Paris. Erika Cárdenas is a Mexican visual artist, born and raised in Mexico City. She began her artistic training in visual arts... Read more

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