The show is to be seen as part of a whole, which is now divided and dispersed. After being awarded one of Grants Art Visual, by the Generalitat Valenciana, a considerable part of her recent works is itinerant around the Valencian Community (*1). What is being shown here, for this reason, could seem incomplete is one does not know previous works, or if one doesn´t know the corresponding works of this same period, gathered in the catalogue iyalo , as a result of the present Grant.

In this show the use of Painting and Drawing predominates over Photography, field that María Alonso has developed widely together with video, along the past eight years. While the Photographs manage to connect intensely and immediately with the viewer, probably as a consequence of the years of development and research, drawings and above all paintings suffer from a certain incommunication, being the themes of a direct spirituality, without any commercial concessions.

The magic power of the hands, at the same time tools and exhaust valves for internal energies, flows and emotional intensities that escape and revert in naked bodies; postures of meditation and enchantment...These are part of the themes of this show which uses a naive stile in the drawings and paintings, and finds all its projection and intensity in the photographic images. These images show characters turning inside exterior and wrapping spirals, containing scale reproductions of themselves in their hands, inside their body, facing the roundness of the moon or immersed in a glass of wine, as if the symbolic elements would acquire an accentuated and half-eternal main role.

In a time of discredited values and words to the wind, it is surprising and revealing when someone looks inside and tries to define what occurs, changes and expires outside (and inside) of ourselves.

(*1) (Valencia, Alicante and Castellón)