Élise et la beauté du corps nu, 2022

To speak about desire and bodies is to talk about life, not just about lust. Desire and jouissance permeate people in every aspect: they are the invisible forces that move our being, determining how we perceive the world. Modrego reflects how we l...

To speak about desire and bodies is to talk about life, not just about lust. Desire and jouissance permeate people in every aspect: they are the invisible forces that move our being, determining how we perceive the world. Modrego reflects how we look at our own and other people's bodies. Through graphic simplification, she converts human forms into lines and planes of color. Color, in her case, is inseparable from the form and content of the work, whose power derives from this process of using chromatics. Flat colors allow her to generate amplitude, letting the bodies breathe and connecting them. The artist focuses on the role of emotions, channeled through the specific use of color and its combinations.