Paula Nicho
En las pinturas de Paula Nicho, el retrato de la vida cotidiana campesina se mezcla con lo sagrado a través de lo imaginario, lo espiritual y lo onírico. Estos elementos, entrelazados en capas de pintura, nos invitan a sumergirnos en el paisaje y navegar a través de él sin que sea relevante separar una cosa de la otra.
Aligned with the traditional painting style of Comalapa, the works by Paula Nicho are charged with references to ancestral spirituality, celebrating spheres of human experience beyond consciousness. It was from the experience of flying that she had in a dream that the artists began to portray flying women in many of her paintings, focusing attention to the female figure and reinforcing the perspective of the feminine gaze in her productions, which was very uncommon in the years she began to paint.
In Paula Nicho's paintings, depictions of rural daily life merge with the Mayan divine, manifested in spiritual and dream-like imagery. Portrayed in the layers of paint, these elements invite us to delve into the landscape and to navigate through it without needing to separate one thing from the other.