In these works, painting becomes a language of instinct, imagination and dream. Developed through years of working with abstraction, Dionisia Salas approaches painting as a fluid and intuitive form of communication, where gesture carries lived significance and shape can hold meaning and reference.

This body of work explores the space between the material world and the subconscious, bridging everyday experience with imagination and dream states. Working through a slow, analogue process of searching and unearthing, the artist allows images to emerge through the act of painting itself, as painterly knowledge slides humorously and sometimes surprising into subconscious forms. Drawing plays an important role in this process, offering a direct, bodily language that feeds into the energy of the paintings.

Moving fluidly between abstraction and figuration, biomorphic forms drift through weightless, shape-shifting spaces. Membranous, fleshy and cosmic forms emerge  from the painted surface, while heads and cartoon-like figures gradually appear, as if dreamed, breathed or pulled into being. Humour and flamboyance sit alongside more abject and subconscious forms, creating a world that is playful, strange and tumultuous.

The works inhabit a state of questioning, doubt and becoming, where recognition continually slips back in abstraction. Through the fluid nature of paint, these works embrace the tension between control and chaos, allowing unexpected forms to emerge through instinct, gesture and the material possibilities of the painted surface.