Marta Beltrán (Granada, 1977) has created a collection of drawings, in small and large format, with Indian ink and acrylic on paper according to her usual line of work. The main theme communicated in the exhibition is the animal as a vital element in relation to the female figure.
Her work's main motivation is to represent the female figure as an expression of unconscious and emotional content, differing from other fictional practices such as cinema, underground comics, literature and the media.
The graphic translation that the artist carries out from these fictional practices is not literal. Beltrán's process starts directly, drawing without fitting and without erasing. She resorts to a series of cathartic actions in which, among other things, she stretches and distorts the image, opens it, widens it, mixes it, tears it, rips it, and makes room for the strange. These are actions typical of the animal that the artist executes in her creative process in order to "improve" a psychic situation. It is catharsis as re-knowledge - the encounter with an image that is as if it were one's own. From here, Beltrán distorts the image, drawing it, and constructs a new reality. This re-knowledge produces a change, as she says, an "overflow".
Marta Beltrán has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, having completed a year's degree at Loughborough University, England. She later completed postgraduate studies at several universities (Granada and Madrid). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and, among her individual exhibitions, it is worth mentioning "Life is Sweet" at the Puxagallery Gallery in Madrid and "La Ceremonia" at the Royal Hospital in Granada, curated by Susana Blas, which continued touring to Espacio 13 in Seville. He has work in the collections: Diputación de Huelva, Daniel Vázquez Díaz grant, 2019; DKV, DKV-MAKMA Drawing Award and Gregorio Prieto Foundation, Drawing Award, 2018; University of Granada, Production Grants, 2017; Diputación de Málaga, La Térmica Residents, 2017.
