Good Luck! Ruth Gomez. La New Gallery.

For, with that distinctly metaphorical charge in which she sustains her now habitual dialogue between the human and the animal, Ruth Gomez speaks to us of nothing less than the need for regeneration. Regeneration perhaps after the crisis?

Taking as an example the capacity that certain living beings, both animal and vegetable, possess to reactivate their development in order to restore missing tissue, she suggests that we too should be able to reinvent ourselves, to refuse to give up. And so she reminds us of the quality that allows a lizard to regrow its tail if it loses it, or of a certain kind of jellyfish that enjoys an infinite, limitless life thanks to its capacity to renew all its cells. She also presents us with other, more unfamiliar and sometimes startling species, such as the Axolotl, that alien-looking creature capable of regenerating its most complex organs, or the Tardigrade, the millimetric water bear that can hibernate for centuries and come back to life. There is even the money plant (Plectranthus Verticillatus) shown in a sort of endless wheel: it is the plant that, if given as a gift, will bring us financial prosperity. Ruth Gomez is greatly influenced by Pop art and by anime, the term that identifies animation of Japanese origin. Her always optimistic style is characterized by dynamism and her personal use of color. Her black-and-white pencil drawings are striking, as is the contrast in her color works, which showcase her skill in the use of digital media.

New Gallery
Carranza, 6
Madrid.
From 19 September to 8 November 2014. 

 – Good Luck! Ruth Gomez. La New Gallery –                                                  – Alejandra de Argos –