Mel O’Callaghan: Slime of Time

Painting, as one of the artistic media that is most immediately connected to the gesture, brings into this exhibition a spirituality that is intrinsic to it but is reconfigured within a context of actions and gestures that, though seemingly remote from it, actually belong to it. Mel O’Callaghan creates a new sphere of experience that combines a variety of sensitive substances and poetic transitions, in an approach akin to the one of Clarice Lispector, one of her favourite writers: “I noticed a first rumble like that of a heart beating beneath the earth. I quietly put my ear to the ground and heard summer forcing its way in and my heart beneath the earth.”Going to resistance and permanence, they find themselves here in a perpetual relationship, transmuted by the prevalence of colour that resounds in our eyes, something almost absurd, but unnameable.