Interior landscapes
The work of Ruth Benzaquén proposes a journey which appeals to our senses twofoldly, forging a symbiotic dialogue between a sweetened nature and the deep presence of a bio-emotional body which dissolves in its constantly changing interior.

In this passage we find ourselves urged to think of the canvas as a pure landscape, with images reflected in the history of art through nature, immensely sublime and exuberant, one which is lifted out of the romantic works of Turner. Nevertheless, in Benzaquén, the landscapes follow other rhythms, a different moment, a symbolic atmosphere, still and yet disturbing, tones of red which achieve greater depth and infinity, a tension created alongside the greens and yellows which spin scattered in the space represented. Diving into the psychology of the landscape and into the subjectivity of voluptuous shapes, we are reminded of certain visual coordinates of symbolist painting such as in the rare treatment of nature proposed by Odilón Redón in Cíclope, 1904.

On these lines, Ruth Benzaquén develops a series of works where the predominant feminine figure maintains a parallel dialogue with the most dynamic landscapes. The tension of figure-background encounters its own synthesis in a major body of works where the elements represented merge into a silent, pressing nature whose landscape subtly embraces these globular, organic, biomorph shapes, like vulvas and larva which find their aesthetic relief in the final glow of the dragon fly.

While the details of organic life in the work of Benzaquén transmit the internal flow of a body in full transformation, the absence of such a figurative representation strengthens the pulsion of life and energy condensed in expressive reflection, the latent bio-emotionality in a landscape already  untouched by human form.

 
Lic. Juan Pablo Pérez Rocca