Abstraction, femininity, soul: these are the words that immediately come to mind when one finds oneself in front of the works of the Mexican-Dutch artist Emelly Velasco, who contains within herself and expresses with her art the perfect combination of overwhelming energy and deep reflection.

Through a painting rich in expression, Emelly addresses issues that are very dear to her and on which she also pushes us to reflect. A profound aesthetic research, she encounters in her works the desire to investigate femininity, the soul, the cosmic and earthly energies that interact with each other, always seeking a balance.

The figure of women is central in Emelly's artistic research: the woman seen as an inexhaustible source of strength, energy, purity, but also all the contradictions, injustices and fears that

she is forced to face. Emelly is never afraid to express what he thinks and feels in his deepest self

through his works, addressing even very intimate issues of the female sphere, real taboos, such as

menstruation or the female reproductive system. This is to ensure that anyone, whether man or

woman, can really stop and reflect. The color, with its shades and intensity, the lines, the shapes are

her impactful communication tools, which dance and sing on her canvases. Color is precisely one of

the greatest expressive forces in Emelly's works. In the works selected for this exhibition we have two

predominant colours: red, the color of life, of the blood flowing in the veins, of vitality and courage, and

black, with all its shades of grey, associated and in dialogue with the its opposite, white.

The two opposites that come into contact with each other and, from an initial struggle, finally begin to dialogue,

until they merge together. This is what happens in the life of anyone, especially women, who are

called upon to face a thousand difficulties every day, against which they struggle, but which thanks to

their determination they manage to turn into their strengths