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Bea Bonafini’s practice centers on transformation through shifts in perception. Her works invite viewers to question fixed categories and to enter states of becoming, metamorphosis, and fluidity. In her first solo exhibition in Spain, "Intangible" brings together animal, vegetal, and anthropomorphic forms across the gallery. Nothing appears static; instead, Bonafini’s universe is shaped by constant movement and unfinished processes, reflected in titles such as "Ablaze," "Air Unravelling," "Becoming," "Swallowing Earth," and "Waters Ferment." These works evoke birth, sexuality, death, and renewal, suggesting that endings are never final but part of an ongoing cycle of change. They speak of the migration of souls, dreams, desire, and the mysterious forces that bind bodies and living beings. Material research lies at the core of Bonafini’s practice. Working across painting, textile, sculpture, and collage, she uses cork, wood, cotton from old household textiles, rugs, recycled fabrics, ceramics, oil paint, pastel, acrylic, and watercolour pencil. Through layered surfaces and tactile assemblages, matter itself seems to come alive, continually reorganizing, combining, and evolving. Her figures appear to emerge from an ancient movement of particles and atoms, recalling the shared material origin of all life. At a time marked by conflict, division, and growing polarization, "Intangible" presents art as a space of connection and expanded sensitivity. Bonafini’s works encourage reflection on what binds people together, while also reminding viewers that human life is inseparable from a wider ecosystem. Partly inspired by the writings of Emanuele Coccia, Ocean Vuong, and Octavio Paz, the exhibition imagines existence as relational, porous, and shared. In "Intangible," boundaries dissolve, forms merge, and life is revealed as an endless process of transformation. The exhibition includes a critical text by Fanny Borel, a curator based between Rome and L’Aquila who has developed projects in galleries and public spaces and now works as a museum curator.
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- Organizer
- Agenda cultural Valencia
- Format
- Exhibition
- Audience
- All ages
- Event language
- Not specified
- Attendance
- In-person


