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Un Mundo Perfecto, by Marijose Terán. The lime green ankle boot with its imposing platform heel thrusts into the foreground through an almost cinematic foreshortening, asserting an exaggerated scale against the rest of the figure.
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Marijose Terán

Un Mundo PerfectoSold

Year
2022
Technique
Mixed Media
Dimensions
120 × 100 cm
Status
Sold
Palette
lime green, fuchsia pink, caramel brown, indigo blue, newsprint
Brushwork
Figurative painting with a meticulous, polished finish on a textured base of collage and graphic glazes.

Curatorial analysis

The lime green ankle boot with its imposing platform heel thrusts into the foreground through an almost cinematic foreshortening, asserting an exaggerated scale against the rest of the figure. This bright, tactile boot operates as a visual shield that pushes the viewer back, while the young woman retreats into a self-absorbed posture: hand under her chin, bare shoulders, and a gaze that eludes any direct confrontation, lost upward in a space detached from the scene.

This relaxed bodily attitude immediately contrasts with the density of the background. Across the rear plane, real newspaper clippings and translucent glazes build a grid of headlines detailing climate crises, global agreements, and warnings of collapse. Set against the muted palette of newsprint, laden with stains and suffocating typography, the body explodes in a display of saturated color. The ribbed pink of the corduroy trousers, rendered with meticulous precision highlighting every crease and furrow in the fabric, dialogues with the firmness of the blue bodice and the oily sheen of the footwear's synthetic leather.

A deliberate dialectic emerges between the tactile surface of the skin, soft and warm, and the surrounding informational noise. The title, borrowed from the headline crowning the upper left corner, takes on an ironic resonance in the face of an avalanche of alarmist news. The figure does not seem to disregard her surroundings out of sheer indolence, but rather out of a vital need to build an intimate refuge. Her youthful pose, accented by the scrunchie and casual accessories, asserts the right to levity amid impending collapse. By focusing all kinetic force upon a platform projecting forward, the scene suspends the gravity of the present, freezing a moment of escape where personal fantasy outweighs the crushing weight of reality.

Un Mundo Perfecto

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