Alejandra Lomar

Torre Andrade presents Mundo descomunal, a solo exhibiton by Alejandra Lomar.

The project emerged as an exploration of large-format drawing, utilizing heavy canvas—the most accessible large-scale medium that requires neither priming nor a stretcher frame. Pastel chalk, with its porous quality, creates a rough, smudged finish that gives the material the appearance of "aged" tarps.

The drawings draw upon comic book aesthetics, while the narratives stem primarily from the artist's personal imaginings of fictional worlds, incorporating elements from the symbolic landscape she inhabits daily. From these elements, Lomar constructs settings with post-apocalyptic and ruinous undertones.

These serve as an ideological bridge, prompting reflection on the "end of the world" from diverse cultural and personal perspectives—moving beyond the apocalyptic visions typical of global modernity to also engage with the cosmologies and narratives of contemporary life.

In this sense, her interpretation of the "end of the world" moves away from the total annihilation of the human species. Instead, she proposes a vision where destruction signifies the loss of social, linguistic, and cultural coherence. The dissolution of these structures is enough to generate an apocalyptic experience, without the need for the kind of global catastrophe often depicted in films. Through this approach, Lomar discovers points of convergence between our futuristic nightmares and the collective memories of countless contemporary societies.

—Torre Andrade