“Esta é a hora dos monstros” (This is the time for monsters) is Julia Debasse’s first solo show at Portas Vilaseca Galeria. Featuring a text by curator and art critic Clarissa Diniz, the exhibition presents the artist’s most recent production in painting, bringing together mirages and distortions between science and folklore, between nature and culture. It is in this twilight that the monsters arise.

In addition to the figures and extraordinary situations of her paintings, it is also in its formal aspects that Debasse’s work sustains the hallucinatory dimension of the project to invent not only monsters, but also the historicity of the very idea of beasts, mythical creatures or images we invent for beings we could not meet. In this way, the flatness of her figurative scenery, the indelicate saturation of colors, the rush of chromatic transitions, the use of pictorial solutions ...