Celia Gallego

Celia's artistic work has a deeply psychological character, aiming to address the problems that humans face both as individuals and as social beings, whether in solitude or within a community. Through figurative and surrealist styles, she seeks to represent the search for the "self" within society, exploring how living and coexisting with others can influence one's reality and thoughts.

Loneliness, attachment, toxicity, emptiness, and depression are just some of the emotions Celia explores through her works. Although her paintings often reflect personal or closely related experiences, one of her goals is for viewers to draw their own conclusions.

Her work is primarily focused on the deconstruction of faces. These faces are never shown in their entirety to the viewer. The faces and anatomical parts presented in her work serve as an x-ray of how she perceives and imagines the human mind; they are the faces of emotions. These expressions represent the feeling of how people can erode us, how we are shaped by a loss or break-up with a loved one, and how certain experiences penetrate the deepest parts of our mind, lingering there in some form or another.