Title: Inner Journey
Year: 2023
Technique: Acrylics on Canvas

Critical text by Senior Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Love, with its elusive and intangible essence, creeps into the deepest recesses of the human soul, defying all definitions and conceptual limitations. Painting, with its ability to capture emotions and convey meanings beyond words, presents itself as a perfect alphabet to express the complexity of love. In the philosophical and symbolic investigation of love through painting, we are faced with an attempt to translate the inexpressible, to capture the essence of an emotion that eludes rational categories. For its part, painting stands as a fertile ground for exploring the mysteries of love. It defies the limitation of verbal discourse, committing itself to communicating what is beyond words. In the strokes of a brush, in the play of light and shadow, the drama of human love unfolds. The pictorial representation of love takes on the dimension of a philosophical journey, a search for truth and meaning in a fuzzy and ambiguous territory. Brushstrokes become thoughts, colors become emotions, and the canvas itself is transformed into a mirror of the soul. Angelica Keiskei, as a visual philosopher, plunges into the depths of the human being, scrutinizing the intricate web of relationships and passions. The artist therefore questions the nature of human affection, its origin and destination. The paintings become visual transcriptions of existential questions, unexpressed desires, heartbeats and ineffable connections. The canvas becomes a place of reflection, a surface on which thoughts of affection are translated into evocative images and take the form of saturated hearts drenched in pigment. Ultimately, Angelica's art aims to probe the ineffable, to give form to that which eludes rational definitions. Through the canvas, the artist ventures into the realm of human emotion, offering a philosophical look at the complexity of love and its ability to find expression in a boundless visual alphabet.