My second skin

For Gama Neaves the most important sense is that of touch, because it is where our most remote memories nest, the porous membrane and largest organ of the human body called skin, reacts to the stimuli of each fiber that touches it, of another skin, of the textures of nature and even the invisibility of the air and vibration of a melody, for this reason her works are loaded with different textures, where she strives to relate the spirit of freedom, strength, delicacy or sensitivity that emerges from the skins and fabrics that dress the women with big eyes that are born from her brush, in this exhibition reference is made to artists, named and anonymous from all times who have crossed the skies of art to give way to other women and their creative freedoms, the wings and birds, the
Fabrics like stone or petals and thorns fused into their skins are the narrative
poetics of what each artist and their story symbolizes, as well as everyday objects converted into artistic pieces through visual elements that remind us of the power and need to surround ourselves in our daily lives with the stimulation that art provokes in us.
In this pictorial exhibition and poetic installation of textile-sublimated pieces, the artist invites us to experience her pieces through the touch of different fabrics with extractions from her paintings that emerge as an extension of her work so that it can be used and felt by the viewer.
Between brushstrokes, seams and fabrics, a sample is woven that reminds us that what envelops and surrounds our skin has an alchemical power in our soul.