In this exhibition, black is not absence. It is origin. The papers intervened by Rebeca Plana do not represent darkness: they move through it. Black appears as a primordial matrix, as that intimate territory where all transformation begins. In a present shaped by climatic, political, social, and personal uncertainties, the artist does not propose escape, but immersion. Her painting plunges into matter as an act of emotional resistance.

These works also emerge from a concrete wound. The DANA affected Albalat de la Ribera, where Plana was born, leaving both material and emotional scars.

Beneath the mud, memory remains; beneath black, color pulses. Here, black is a fertile space. It is the silence that precedes rebirth. It is the place where body, gesture, and matter converge to activate processes of emotional reconstruction. Each work demands time. It invites movement, stillness, and feeling.

Rebeca Plana, a leading figure in contemporary Valencian abstraction, conceives painting as a vital act rather than a purely aesthetic one. To create, in times of disaster, is not only possible—it is urgent. Beauty, far from being a luxury, becomes a language of repair.

Rebeca Plana (Valencia, 1976) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of San Carlos at the Universitat Politècnica de València (2000), where she graduated with Honors for her final project in the painting specialization. She furthered her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon and at the Colegio de España in Paris.

Her work, strongly abstract and at times calligraphic, combines rigorous compositional structures with an intense and free gestural language, where control and improvisation coexist.

Throughout her career, she has been awarded grants and residencies such as Habitat Artístic (Castellón City Council – EACC), the residency at Piramidón Centre d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona), Fundación O Barco de Valdeorras (Ourense),

Museo Picasso Málaga, and Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta. She has also received distinctions including the Senyera Painting Prize (Valencia), the Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia Prize, and an Honorable Mention at the BMW Painting Prize.

She has held solo exhibitions in institutions and galleries such as La Gallera (Valencia), Galería Fernando Latorre (Madrid), Galería Punto, the Colegio de España in Paris, and the Real Fábrica de Tapices. Her work has also been presented in group exhibitions at venues including Ibercaja Zaragoza, Casa de Vacas (Madrid), and Fundación Antonio Pérez, as well as at international contemporary art fairs such as ARCOmadrid, JUSTMAD, and Gante Art Fair (Belgium).