Mayte Vieta (Blanes, Girona, 1971) is a visual artist who uses space and light as means of expression through photography, sculpture and installation.

With influences ranging from Milan Kundera to Simone Weil, Vieta reflects on the contradictions of human experience through snapshots that capture the complexity of the spectrum of our emotions, thoughts and experiences.

His works redefine the relationship between opposites with the coherence that only dreams contain.
Vieta creates with his pieces dreamlike atmospheres in whose parallel reality gravity and weightlessness coexist, and where the boundaries between the peaceful and the tragic are blurred to suggest moods that in their ambiguous intensity integrate these opposites.

His landscapes, composed of non-places of silence and stillness, speak to us of the suspension of the present and of immersion in a new gravitational universe, where time slows down, the instant lengthens and the subject becomes nature.Planned as a refuge from the outside world, The Sound of the Sea expresses a complex form of happiness that contains mixed feelings of fulfillment and escape.

The feeling of plenitude is accompanied by a strange perception of melancholy, a kind of stupor before the immeasurable dimension of nature, which both caresses and oppresses us.

Curated by Natàlia Chocarro, director of External Projects at the Fundació Vila Casas, the exhibition has been conceived for the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, which is hosting for the first time the work of this Catalan artist.