Beatriz Buendia explores gesture and scale in her first solo exhibition at Gruta, Curated by Gabriela Gotoda, “First Dive” brings together paintings that reject pure abstraction to create fields of experience and associations

Starting July 11, Gruta – Espaço de Arte Contemporânea presents “First Dive,” Beatriz Buendia’s first solo exhibition. Bringing together a body of paintings developed over the past two years, the show marks both a milestone in her artistic maturation and a turning point in her career. The body of work is the visible result of five years of immersion in the studio environment, a period during which the artist refined her ongoing exploration of support preparation, pigmentation, and technique, consolidating an increasingly distinctive artistic language.

Moving away from an understanding of abstraction as a purely formal territory, Buendia’s work is based on the premise that the pictorial surface is capable of engaging the viewer. As the artist herself states, it is about evoking “a sensation, a memory, a mood, a desire, or a scent hidden in memory.” “Perhaps that is why I like to think of these works as invitations to dive in—not into a closed narrative, but into a field of experiences and possibilities, where colors, forms, and matter can be felt before they are explained.”
Buendia’s relationship with the visual arts began in childhood, influenced by her grandfather, a painter. After working with photography and collage in college, she began to devote herself to painting. Since 2022, she has been part of the professional staff at MAM São Paulo, an experience that complements her participation in Paulo Pasta’s painting course and the art history study group led by Rodrigo Naves.

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