Ramos, Evelyn, The Paintings of Paula Saneaux

Voga Magazine, August

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The Paintings of Paula Saneaux

All their thoughts possess a calculative essence to provoke emotions and sensations. When they have to reason, their behavior is unstable, their opinions doubted -not the doubt produced in debates or progressive points of view- but from contradicting emotions. Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman).

Egypt gave us a polemic Cleopatra and an charming Nekfertiti; Rome introduced us its Venus and Aphrodite, Mexico expanded its roots with an expressive pain of Frida Khalo; France gave birth to the warrior Joan of Arc and England crowned the history with Isabel I. Whom does Paula Saneaux introduces us to in her paintings? Admired or despised women? Woman born to be revolutionaries or to be objects of desire and sensationalism?  Those who are honest, clear, disinhibited or dress up with secrets?

Paula paints semi naked women with a monochromatic palette, whose gazes seem lost or staring at a viewer that emits judgments about their lack of clothing condition.  Maybe the interior spaces in her paintings remind us the intimacy of a unfinished story, or conduct us to imagine  the individual thoughts that must be happening there.

What is for sure is that Saneaux wants to show in her paintings her perception about women who surround her. She presents them from an objective point of view but not without sensibility and whim, that’s why the themes in her paintings don’t diverge. They are always connected by femininity loops and a subtle nudity baptized with bursts of mysterious and sensuality that don’t know the vulgar.

Paula’s style is influenced by the classic realist painters and the theme of the contemporary painting.

Paula Saneaux has had two solo shows in the country, both in FUNGLODE. The first one was titled “Las Pracas”, 16 artworks and the second and most recent one “Ellas” with 9 paintings.

She has participated and received recognitions from XXI Biennial E Leon Jimenes, Centro Leon in Santiago, from II Biennial Candido Museum in Bonao, and The Elizabeth Foundation Grant in Canada. She holds a Bachelor in Advertising from APEC University; she graduated from Altos de Chavon School of Design and from Parsons The New School of Design, New York.