“…Dionisia Salas’ paintings and prints feel like flashes of sensation – of heat, memory, intuition. Her works move through colour and line with a kind of bodily knowledge, layers blooming and blurring with a slow pulsing warmth. Her soft abstractions have grown more fluid and nuanced in recent years, more meditative. She credits this to the “unfinished language” between her and her young children, a language that has reshaped her sense of attention and expression, of needing to interpret the wordless.”

Camilla Wagstaff

excerpt from the exhibition essay Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light held at Civic Art Bureau, August 2025