The artist Amabel Míguez de la Sierra presents the exhibition ‘Abuso’ at the University Church. On this occasion, the creator shows works on paper, mainly drawings, sometimes of large format, allowing her to combine a technique as basic as drawing with an original thematic and compositional treatment.

The exhibition

“Contemporary society seems to be governed by the law of abuse: social, sexual, ritual, familial, physical… This abuse, this aggressive overstepping, manifests in all kinds of situations that are not always understood as overreach or excess. Amabel Míguez’s reflection on this occasion focuses on the most evident abuses against children, sometimes barely concealed in power relations or even sexual contexts. And also on social abuses that arise in seemingly innocuous situations: a family party, a wedding, a celebration. There, the abuse is no longer personal protagonism but becomes excessive in the very handling of the situation. The celebratory excesses that society endures today are completely abusive for those who experience them directly, but also for those who would like to participate in the same celebration and are excluded due to their social or economic situation: an abuse in absentia,” explain the organizers.

Amabel Míguez, on a path sometimes disturbing, ironic, and unkind, which may recall Paula Rego or the Chinese artist Yu Hong, highlights the social contradictions hidden in behavior seen as socially correct and acceptable. The individual content of each piece, loaded with not always obvious values, distances these drawings from a false illustrative image in need of an auxiliary explanatory discourse.