Contemporary figurative painting with psychological symbolism, surreal undertones, and theatrical portraiture.

This exhibition feels intimate and unsettling at the same time.

Bernadette Despujols creates interiors filled with silence, fragmented identities, masks, hidden emotions, and staged moments that feel suspended between reality and performance.

You’re watching:

• Faces that conceal more than they reveal
• Domestic spaces transformed into emotional landscapes
• Symbolic objects charged with tension
• Characters that seem caught between vulnerability and control

The paintings invite you to slow down and read gestures, textures, and small psychological details.

Yes — especially if you enjoy emotionally driven contemporary painting.

Because this isn’t art made for spectacle.

It’s art about identity, intimacy, and the roles we play in front of others.

Inside Madrid’s contemporary art scene — especially in Carabanchel — exhibitions like this show how figurative painting is evolving beyond aesthetics into something more emotional and cinematic.

Visit slowly → these works reveal themselves over time

Stand close first, then step back → details and atmosphere change completely

Focus on the eyes, hands, and objects → that’s where the emotional narrative lives

Combine it with other Carabanchel galleries → the neighborhood itself feels like part of the experience

Artlovers tip:

Go without headphones for a moment.

This exhibition works best when you can feel the silence inside the paintings.