Ana Rod invites us to explore a universe where perception becomes a play of mirrors, a territory in which reality unfolds and forms are reinvented. With her distinctive biomorphic language, Rod constructs an “available” landscape where the abstract and the figurative are not opposites but rather components of the same experience.
The exhibition is structured around two main axes: the materiality of ceramics, which rise like totems and organic forms in dialogue with space, and a reflection on visual representation through light and shadows. The mirror, a metaphor for another reality that reveals multiple aspects of our visual perception, appears to multiply the ways of interpreting the pieces, creating an expanded reality that questions our perception.
LED light breaks down the boundaries of shadow, projecting profiles in CMYK. Rod incorporates two-dimensionality in graphic works that interact with her sculptures: black silhouettes of her ceramic forms multiply and fragment into colored shadows, exploring the hidden layers of the image and the complexity of vision. She employs the refraction of light through LEDs to dissolve the limits of shadow and project them in a play of transparencies and opacities.
The exhibition does not seek to narrate but to juxtapose; forms, colors, and textures emerge as independent entities, constructing a universe that oscillates between the organic and the fictitious. In this fertile landscape, the marine, the natural, and the synthetic merge, evoking an imagined and saturated nature that challenges pre-established categories.
Rod transcends traditional figuration, proposing a deeply personal language in which each piece operates as a mirage, reflecting not only her vision but also the viewer’s projections and resonances.
In Reflections of a Broken Image, the artist does not merely transform reality—she creates a new one. A space where the possible and the impossible coexist, a place where forms engage in dialogue with emptiness, and matter becomes a bridge to the immaterial.
Laura Darriba