Paula Turmina
Paula Turmina – MA/MFA
My practice encompasses painting, printmaking, analogue films, and writing. I investigate, through multiple approaches, the potential of painting from its materiality to the contradictions of representation. By approaching the canvas and other surfaces as a metaphorical landscape, I explore notions of time and storytelling from a sci-fi perspective. The recent paintings present us with a metafictional, post-apocalyptic world inhabited by characters who seem to merge with the natural world around them. Through the use of land pigments, I emphasize the painting’s own constructedness in a way that continually reminds the viewers that even the most otherworldly imagery is made from Earthly material. Relentlessly trying to prove the earth is alive.