Terroir

February 2021

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From October 2020 to February 2021, Nihura created a series of monochrome paintings, almost like a visual diary of her residency at le Marais.

She was immediately attracted by the horses living in the domain’s stables, which she visited daily and developed a strong interest in the local cars parked around the village.

During her residence, she elaborated and assembled an accumulation of representative images of Le Marais and its surroundings, offering a poetic testimony of her environment, down to its most trivial details. She explored the identity of the local rurality, whose various faces were revealed over the seasons.

Her residency was also an opportunity to reflect on thoughts that bloomed during the lockdown, and which, despite their introspective nature, are common to many people : time flying, the value of our movement in space, but also self-reflection. Nihura, explains the importance of blank spaces in her works : ''I like leaving white space because it offers a place to think about emptiness, allowing the viewer to fill in the blanks with something whether personal or something in relation with the piece.''

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About

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Nihura Montiel, born in 1988, is a painter from Tijuana, Mexico, who currently lives in Los Angeles. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California in 2013.

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