AMALIA PEREIRA

Venezuela

Amalia Pereira

Fragments of Memory and Light

The artistic practice of Venezuelan artist Amalia Pereira unfolds as an intimate and evocative territory where matter becomes language. Through a refined dialogue between collage and painting, she constructs a visual poetics at once delicate and powerful, capable of engaging memory and perception with singular clarity.

Her creative process is based on the layering of diverse materials—photography, engravings, gold leaf, crayon, pencil, and vibrant inks—each interacting in subtle harmony. These seemingly disparate elements are orchestrated with precision, balancing chance and control to generate luminous and symbolic spaces. Gold leaf emerges as a radiant presence, evoking spiritual resonance; photography anchors the work in lived experience; while hand-drawn gestures, rendered in pencil or crayon, infuse the compositions with intimacy and vulnerability.

Within this intricate interplay, Pereira masterfully introduces the spirit of Surrealism. With warmth and subtlety, she creates poetic associations that imagine new contexts, where images formed from multiple fragments evoke dreamlike, unexpected realities. This surreal dimension envelops the viewer in atmospheres that are simultaneously fragile and profound, where the biographical, the feminine, and the ephemeral coexist.

In Pereira’s work, beauty arises from fragments—transformed through an alchemy of materials and sensibility. Her images transcend narrative to open contemplative spaces where silence, reflection, and wonder prevail, inviting the viewer into a profound encounter with the poetic potential of matter itself.

Text by Ninoska Huerta