VMP - Reflexión doméstica, 2026.

VMP (Instagram @molina.pardo) is a Spanish visual artist, PhD in art and research, whose practice combines contemporary figurative painting with experimentation in film and animation. Numerous awards and selections attest to a consolidated and recognized artistic career.

This original piece, created in 2026, is a figurative study in which an internal system of codes is constructed, but they are not used to symbolize psychological states, stories, or messages. They are laws of pictorial operation, not keys to allegorical reading. The painting is not organized to “say something” beyond itself, but to show how a figure is supported, how color closes a space, how gesture is registered on the surface. The codes it configures (repetition of motifs, certain light, a certain rigidity of composition, type of gaze) are rules of visual play, not keys to emotional or narrative interpretation.

It is proposed that the viewer confront the painting as an object with its own internal laws, rather than looking behind it for a confession, a trauma, or a personal story. It is not denied that the viewer may read metaphors, but it is rejected that the practice is permeated by the obligation to produce them. The interest lies not in encoding a hidden world, but in explicitly organizing the visible world.

These paintings on paper are mixed media on Fabriano paper with a high cotton content. They begin as acrylics or simple drawings that are later manipulated with fine sandpaper, apply glazes of Liquin with oil, and end up painting in oil to enhance soft tones or simply eliminate the gloss of the acrylic, which at times recalls plastic.

Shipping is carried out by placing the painting between a board and a thick transparent acetate sheet that can later be used for framing. The work is protected with bubble wrap and cardboard.