Isabel Brito Farré is showing her latest work, a series entitled “A house on the outskirts,” at La Simětrica in Barcelona. Brito Farre’s solo exhibition was featured with a short segment on the public television station TV3, which can be viewed below.
For this exhibition, the artist has produced a series of intimate, small-format paintings and drawings, seeking that each piece be a point of view of the same argument. This series is very important for her, as it breaks a temporary space of non-creation. After her move to Barcelona and the birth of her son in 2017, these works arise from the experience of the most committed years of motherhood, where she has hardly found space and time for artistic production. Brito Farré feels a strong parallel between this existence and the feeling she had when she lived in the American suburbs: the isolation, the sensation that one’s own identity disappears, of being on the periphery of everything. An experience that from the outside is seen as something idyllic but from the inside is full of contradictions – a beautiful burden, a house on the outskirts. Thus, she presents a series of unique pieces but always with the same common elements. Technically, they have flat, vivid colors, layers to cover that reveal what’s underneath, and clean, repetitive lines.
From the series “A house on the outskirts”. Acrylic and graphite on wood, 30 cm x 30 cm, 2025.