A Retrospective of Social Commitment and Visual Memory
Fundació Chirivella Soriano presents "Fleeing Bodies, Landscapes of Barbarism", a solo exhibition by Isabel Oliver (Valencia, 1946) spanning over five decades of artistic creation. Curated by the Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana and the foundation itself, the exhibition brings together six of her most significant series: Women, Pop Landscapes, The Task of the Home as a Profession, Walks Through the Museum, The Commercialisation of Art, and Mediterranean Sequences. Created between the 1970s and today, these works showcase a pictorial language where visual power intertwines with incisive social critique.
Themes: Violence, Migration, and Revisiting Tradition
Oliver’s paintings address issues such as human rights violations, the migration crisis, and the representation of women in society. Series like Walks Through the Museum reinterprets Western pictorial tradition—with references to Titian or Rubens—from a contemporary perspective, while Mediterranean Sequences focuses on historical memory and current conflicts. Her participation in the exhibition The World Goes Pop (2015–2016) at the Tate Modern in London solidified her international profile, and her works are now part of collections like the Museo Reina Sofía, the IVAM, and the Bank of Spain Collection.
Isabel Oliver: Artist and Educator
Trained at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos and a professor of painting at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Oliver has combined her artistic career with teaching. This exhibition, held in the halls of the Palau Joan de Valeriola, offers a unique opportunity to explore the evolution of her visual discourse, marked by denunciation and reflection on the human condition.
