In Neurons, Paola Piombino replaces anatomy with an affective cartography: organic nodes expand and interlace across an earthen field. Natural inks, charcoal, and chalk settle in slow layers—macerations, glazes, erasures—until connections surface, suggesting synaptic activity without illustrating it. The work does not depict a brain; it stakes out a territory where matter and memory become indistinguishable. The support—a ground primed with earth and coffee—breathes; its pores retain gestures, spills, and pauses, composing a network that advances between eruption and hush. Here, painting thinks: the idea arrives as stain, connection as line, remembrance as sediment. Piombino works the time of materials so that landscape becomes body—and the body, a map.
Tech sheet (for submissions)
Title: Neurons (Neurons Series)
Dimensions: 180 × 100 cm
Medium/Materials: natural inks, charcoal, and chalk on canvas; ground primed with earth and coffee
Place of production: Tigre, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
