The exhibition has been extended until Friday, February 28 2025.
An Immersive Exploration of Chaos, Culture, and Commodification.
Exhibition of the artist and Painting student Mara Espinosa Erda. Curated by Ayda Özcan, Noor Fatima, and Victoria Froberg, graduates of RUFA’s Art Curating and Management programme.
Join us for the inauguration on Monday, February 17, at 6:00 PM at RUFA Space – Pastificio Cerere, Via degli Ausoni, 7.
Mara Espinosa Erda’s Vamos al Mercado is an immersive and visceral exploration of the traditional Latin American market—a space where chaos, culture, and commodification intertwine. Through a multidisciplinary approach, including paintings, prints, videos, and installations, the exhibition constructs a raw and textured landscape that is both intimate and universal: a site of tradition, survival, and transformation.
Markets, as presented by Erda, are more than spaces of commerce; they are cultural microcosms where the past and present collide, oscillating between abundance and scarcity, beauty and grotesque. Her oil paintings of markets and dead animals offer an unfiltered gaze into the raw materiality of commerce, capturing the grotesque beauty of meat in its most primal form. The intricate details and textures evoke both fascination and discomfort, prompting viewers to reconsider their relationship with consumption and the aesthetics of decay.
Practical Information
Opening: Monday, February 17, 6:00 PM – Free entry
Dates: February 17 – 21, 2025
Opening hours: 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM, Monday – Friday
Venue: RUFA Space (second floor), Pastificio Cerere, Via degli Ausoni 7, 00185 – Rome.
