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"The subjects that motivate my work stem come from the memory and everyday life of the ‘home’ as an intimate, inhabited space. My work questions the permanence of spaces and objects, and the transience of human presence. My work is based on historical research, but also on my personal and spatial experience of the chosen place, which I transcribe into annotations, sketches and research notebooks prior to creation on canvas or paper. This process leads to the creation of my works, which not only involve formal experimentation with painting or drawing and its materiality, but also the construction of relationships and meanings around space, its inhabitants and memory beyond cultural or geographical boundaries. My work takes shape through vast series of works on canvas or paper around the same subject or theme."

Rosa Maria Unda Sunki on her practice.

Tablitas para no Olvidarte is a series of small oil paintings on wood the artist initiated during the first lockdown. For the artist, it represents a return to her childhood home, the place of her first intimate reference. This group of small oils was made with a reduced use of tonalities and materials, and through the minimal use of details and compositional elements. It's a portrait of this place, succinct, simple, modest, essential. A memory that comes back, awkwardly, in the urgency to resound landmarks, to recast references, not to lose what is precious to me: a place, a time, presences.

Thomas Fort, may 2024.