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ABSTRACTION AS A PLASTIC LANGUAGE IN THE WORK OF REBECA SEGURA

by Miguel Ángel Vives Lorenzini.

Segura has explored a variety of themes and styles throughout her career, ultimately gravitating toward abstraction, a traditional art movement closely linked to the vanguards of the second half of the 20th century.

Following the principles of L'Art informel, she rejects conventional artistic guidelines to express emotions and feelings through a spontaneous and gestural creative process. This approach is characterized by the absence of a predetermined formal structure, with variables such as chance and intuition playing key roles—intuition understood as a subjective manifestation of the subconscious that significantly influences compositional rhythms, chromatic directions, and material weight, giving each work its own unique character.

Bravely and passionately, Segura experiments with various techniques, materials, and supports as part of a creative process rooted in introspection, aiming to communicate both conscious and unconscious emotional states through an abstract visual language.

by Luis Fernando Quirós.

I assert all this because, in contemporary art—and especially in Segura’s current work—this repulsive force erupting from Earth’s entrails is the inner drive of an artist who embraces an abstraction that summons every living force of the planet. From the cave where a river is born in a mountain’s womb—a space where ancestral spirits stand guard and defend—we sense her deep connection to place.

Rooted in sacred geometry, her paintings draw on the continent’s original manifestations, as Vives Lorenzini and Solís have noted in their studies. Her strokes, gestures, overwritings, impastos, and fluid passages emerge from even more primordial sources: telluric forces and the waters of the world’s cave, where early artists once entered to leave their existential mark in rock art. Yet her canvases also unfold like Situationist maps of the 1960s—laden with signs, data, and (mis)information that reveal the city’s origins, its social structure, and the existential chasms we all carry on our backs.

Now, when I turn to stone, it’s important to say that stone—more than the earth and water our planet provides—is the true material origin of the universe. Stones exist on every planet, on moons, asteroids, and comets—those immense, unimaginable bodies careening into one another through outer space. As they break apart, they become millions of fragments of hard rock that unleash flashes of light and bursts of sound.