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Feeling the Soul: because there are feelings that only abstraction understands

  • Jota17
  • Apr 26
  • 2 min read

Updated: May 17



In the stillness between looking and feeling, Sentir a Alma is born, an abstract art exhibition that doesn't aim to represent the visible world, but rather to evoke the invisible - that which pulses behind words, gestures and silences. Here, the viewer is invited to abandon the logic of reason and immerse themselves in the vastness of feeling. Nothing is literal. Nothing is explained. Everything vibrates in layers of emotion, intuition and memory.

 

Abstraction, in this body of work, is neither escape nor artifice: it is the pure language of the soul. The artist gives the public compositions that spring from the intimate, the unspeakable, what cannot be tamed by recognisable forms. They are gestures of colour, textures in conflict, strokes that interrupt or dissolve, as if the creative process itself were an attempt to touch what escapes us by nature.

 



Each work is a sensitive territory, built with an intensity that is revealed in the internal rhythms of the composition. Some works shout, others whisper. Some seem to contain emotional storms, others are like deep breaths in search of balance. It's not a question of "understanding" the works, but of feeling them - as if they were states of mind fixed for a moment on a visual plane. It is at this point that the exhibition reveals itself to be profoundly human: by recognising that the soul has no form, but a presence; no limits, but marks; no body, but weight.

 

The title Feeling the Soul is not just a suggestion - it's a poetic imperative. The exhibition demands sensitivity, inner listening and a willingness to be uncomfortable. It challenges the need for control and immediate interpretation. It invites a contemplative presence, a surrender to not knowing. Each painting is an open question, a vibration that resonates differently in each visitor, creating a silent and intimate dialogue.

 



There is something deeply therapeutic about this exhibition. Not because it proposes a cure, but because it legitimises feeling. In times of hyperconnectivity, constant stimuli and quick responses, Feeling the Soul is an invitation to retreat, to slow down, to listen to what is pulsating inside. It's a space where emotions find shelter, where the absence of a figure allows for the presence of truth.

 

Abstract art, so often misunderstood or feared for its apparent indifference to the concrete world, shows its full power here. After leaving, the visitor takes with them a fragment of themselves, recognised or revealed there, in front of a field of colour, a suspended gesture, a carefully left void. Ultimately, this exhibition is about the soul, not as a concept, but as an experience. And feeling that experience, even if only for a moment, is the true encounter that art proposes here.

 
 
 

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