Sara Bonache

b. 1991

Sara Bonache Rios is a painter based in Barcelona, where she focuses on the intricate relationship between the human body and the natural world. Her work draws influence from modernist artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, characterized by soft tones and forms that navigate the delicate balance between the spiritual and the earthly.

Bonache's compositions often imbue plants and natural elements with a deep emotional intimacy, evoking calm and reflection. Through vivid colors and intricate details, she invites viewers to consider the complexity of their connection with the environment. Themes of sensuality and femininity are interwoven with depictions of flora and fauna, creating a subtle, evocative language that speaks to the viewer's senses.

Her body of work emanates an ethereal quality, laced with mystery and open to interpretation. In her paintings, Bonache engages in a nuanced exploration of the profound connections between humanity and the natural world, creating works that are both visually captivating and deeply introspective.

Artist Statement:

Sara Bonache’s practice explores the relationship between the human body and nature by dissolving the boundaries between these two iconographies, seeking new forms through metamorphosis and metaphor. Known and unknown shapes intertwine, constantly playing with each other and subverting existing meanings. In this exchange, one image hides another—the body and care, the spiritual and the earthly. Hallucinatory or magical plants emerge, where the limits of form dissolve to give way to analogy. Medicine and magic converge in the creation of a chimerical and scientifically-inflected imaginary, providing a unique means of exploring our relationship to the natural world, our bodies, and their life cycles.