Mantalina Psoma

WORKS CV

Mantalina Psoma presents her personal exhibition. The exhibition consists of works of art she has produced the last two years. The puzzling title of the exhibition “In Between” encloses the semantic and pictorial speculation of Psoma’s paintings. The figures of her works move ‘in between’ the realistic and the non realistic world. She uses realistic depictions as a representational medium so that she subsequently gives her personal version of the image, which hides the ‘unreal’ behind its apparent reading. In fact, she uses eloquently familiar pictographic codes, simply to transcend to other fictional realities. Even the human faces in her works, though attributed in a non realistic way, are charged with surrealistic naturalness and appear almost eerie. Besides, just by seeing the paintings it is obvious that Psoma’s representations are not characterized by their photographic attribution but by a subtle ‘transcendent’ property whose molding conception moves in between its seeming existence and non-materiality.