Exposition of Maria Gomez-Umaña : Dynamique des fluides

Maria’s dream space, her muse, her source of resilience is one of flow. Abandoning the violence of Colombia, she has sought safety and peace. Yet, she remains a migrant; her art the metaphor for both her yearning and her loss. In her work, you see the lifeforce of the river and the river’s essential place in the heart of the richest, most complex and beautiful ecosystems on the planet, inseparable from the Colombian gestalt. Her boat is adrift but utterly safe, held in the embracing ecology of the flow. Within her gentle, loving drawings are those symbols of hope: seminal, organic, connected, spiritual. Maria’s flow carries us on our life’s journey. Maria’s vision of that journey is astonishingly optimistic, generous and sublime.