Secret, endins / Secret, inside

oil on canvas
147 x 208 cm

Rita Sala Treig (1994, Barcelona) is a painter whose work investigates the relationship between bodies, nature, and the connective spaces they inhabit. Her paintings construct surreal landscapes in which figuration and abstraction remain in tension, neither resolving into the other.

Working in accumulated layers of oil through application and reworking, Sala builds compositions where forms and figures emerge and dissolve within the surface. These elements carry an archetypal charge, while her palette shifts between soft, atmospheric tones and more assertive chromatic contrasts, allowing multiple visual tensions to coexist within a single work.

Through subtle surreal shifts, her perspective opens to hold multiple spatial registers at once, as if each layer belonged to a different place the painting attempts to contain simultaneously. In this way, the image operates less as an explanation than as a symbolic field where fiction, memory, and vision converge.

Recent solo exhibitions include Dalt, la serra at Ana Mas Projects, Barcelona (2024) and Figura satèl·lit at Racoon Projects, Barcelona (2023). Her work has been presented at the Cape Town Art Fair and in exhibitions in Seoul, Madrid, and Ibiza, and is held in the Patrim Collection of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, as well as in private collections across Europe and Australia.