Francisca Brunet Bayon

Francisca Brunet Bayon

Entrega de una plataforma inundada, 2024
Oil on canvas
48" x 40" x 2.5"
Courtesy of the artist

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7 casas y 7 peldaños para entrar, 2024
Gouache on paper, 7 works of 12.5 x 9.5 framed (wood & glass)
60" x 30" x 1"
Courtesy of the artist

Francisca Brunet Bayón (b. 1987, Santiago de Chile). Painter. Sometimes something else.

“Causes arising from the feelings and the heart must become formal causes if a work is to possess verbal variety, the everchanging life of light. Yet besides the images of form, so often evoked by psychologists of the imagination, there are -as I will show- images of matter, images that stem directly from matter. The eye assigns them names, but only the hand truly knows them. A dynamic joy touches, moulds, and refines them. When forms, mere perishable forms and vain images-perceptual change of surfaces- are put aside, these images of matter are dreamt substantially and intimately. They have weight; they constitute a heart.”

G. Bachelard

I’m drawn to what feels both hostile and mysterious, yet simultaneously soft and tender—like something once familiar, but forgotten, lost to time. I accept and seize ambiguity, straddling the space between concealment and revelation, pleasure and pain, desire and disgust. For me, painting arises from a need to fill an absence, to address a void, something that’s missing. It becomes a way of unveiling an ineffable unknown while simultaneously discovering hidden layers of what is already known. I view matter as something ever-present, constantly shifting, acquiring new forms, meanings, and purposes. I’m par ticularly captivated by surfaces and gashes that bridge the inner and outer realms—offering fleeting glimpses into both, while holding vast, untold stories, both factual and poetic.