FORTALEZAS

Diplomacy (India Catalina), 2020
Canvas, stucco, gold leaf, acrylic,oil paste
120 x 90 cm

This project took shape during the pandemic, in a context of confinement that imposed new ways of seeing and being in the world. From within that transformed reality, the artist turned her gaze toward the women around her, recognizing in them a silent, persistent, and luminous strength. This everyday observation activated a deeply rooted personal memory: that of growing up in a matriarchal family in Barranquilla, Colombia, where female strength was not the exception, but the foundation.

The work is structured around a question that cuts across both collective history and intimate experience: How have women, throughout time, faced their social and personal crises? Rather than offering a singular answer, the project creates a visual space for reflection, empathy, and the celebration of that resilience. Through images that combine emotional observation and symbolic construction, the work reclaims a feminine universe that, far from fracturing in times of crisis, asserts itself with even greater intensity.

2020 - 2022

Abstract painting with pink and red brushstrokes, black splashes, and pencil sketches on a beige background.

The Vision (Pita Amor), 2020

Jute, gold leaf, pigments, acrylic, charcoal
140 x 140 cm

Abstract painting with blue background, gold textured elements, and red splashes.

Perseverance (Mamá Lú), 2020

Jute, gold leaf, pigments, acrylic, charcoal. 115 x 100 cm

Abstract artwork with black paint splatters, gold textured background, and tangled gold wire on dark blue canvas.
An abstract painting depicting a black circular shape with splatters and a thin black line extending from it, on a textured gold background with scribbled lines around the circle.

Courage (La Pola), 2020

Jute, gold leaf, pigments, acrylic, charcoal
110 x 120 cm

Freedom (Nina Simone), 2020

Jute, gold leaf, pigments, acrylic, charcoal
120 x 90 cm

Exposición Rastros Vitales Ocre Galeria by Aleli

Exhibition “Rastros Vitales” Fortalezas project Ocre Galería by alelí

An art gallery with five abstract paintings on the right wall and two on the back wall, a wooden sideboard with sculptures and a row of small artwork on the left, and a seating area with two chairs, a small table, and a black office chair on a tan rug.

Exhibition “Rastros Vitales” Fortalezas project Ocre Galería by alelí

ANÓNIMAS

These pieces condense the memory and imprint of a strength built from the intimate. Derived from the Fortalezas series, they revisit its experimental, technical, and material processes, proposing a sensitive continuity with that earlier body of work. However, here scale plays a fundamental role: the smaller format invites close, almost ntrospective contemplation, in which the work offers itself as a symbolic mirror.

This gesture of miniaturization does not entail a reduction of strength on the contrary, it enhances the emotional dimension of the pieces, which draw on the power of the everyday, the personal, and the seemingly fragile. Through them, the artist reminds us with subtlety and honesty of the beauty and resilience that dwell within each of us.

Close-up of a red textured surface with a vertical rough streak in the center.

Anónima, 2020

Jute, stucco, acrylic
40 x 40 cm

Close-up of black leather or faux leather material with textured pattern

Anónima, 2020

Jute, stucco, acrylic
40 x 40 cm

Anónima, 2023

Jute, stucco, gold leaf
40 x 40 cm

Abstract art consisting of white paint and small gold-colored fragments on a white background.

Anónima, 2020

Canvas, stucco, gold leaf
40 x 40 cm