"To capture the sensation and unique experience of the contact of the face in the water is what Sofía Bernasconi with "Sumersions", an exhibition that will be on display until May 2nd at Galería Aura (Ongolmo 78, Concepción).

The artist, a student in the Visual Arts program at UdeCreflects on the sensations that water generates on the body through photographs transformed into paintings and vice versa. These visual interpretations are achieved through the distortion caused by the movement of water on faces exposed to light. The distorted and diffuse facial boundaries are interpreted as traces of individuals, like unique and identity-bearing imprints that expand, transforming each face symbolically into a landscape.

"I have developed the method of creating photographic material by asking models, friends, and acquaintances to immerse their faces and bodies in various ways in the water. In this way, each person has lived the experience in a unique and intimate way, and I then transfer this to the pictorial surface, adapting expressively, through brushstrokes, to each of them," she explained.

She adds, "I truly interpret this experience and connection with water as an earthly abandonment, hence why I relate it to the disintegration of the visual figure. In other words, the face transforms into a landscape."