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Breathe In, Create Out... Second Wind
Dates:
Opening 08 March at 12.00
Location:
Calle del Fúcar, 17
Madrid
Thursday - Saturday, from 10AM - 19PM
TKM.XOXO
Solo Exhibition Opening
Breathe In, Create Out... Second Wind
Life is made up of moments, and now time felt different—it was like a wind in the head. A second wind, perhaps. The air was no longer as heavy as it had been at the start of the day...
"Mrs Dalloway," Virginia Woolf
There are encounters that, without warning, completely transform the perception of an ordinary day. Sometimes, a casual conversation turns into a revealing exchange, where creative energy and an artistic vision unfold with overwhelming authenticity. The mix of passion and clarity made it clear that Nena Loaysa not only sees art as a means of expression but as an act of affirmation and resistance.
From the very first moment, it was impossible not to perceive the strength of her visual universe, where color, shape, and texture interact around a personal story marked by motherhood, identity, and the constant search for balance. Seeing her work, it became evident that it was not merely an aesthetic manifestation but a testimony of life—a cartography of emotions, tensions, and statements. Every brushstroke and every chromatic choice revealed not just a well-defined artistic language but also a deep narrative built on memory, experience, and the desire to showcase her reality through art.
"Breathe In, Create Out... Second Wind" is a visual manifesto and a testament to resilience and transformation by artist Nena Loaysa, born in Seville in 1986 and known as TKM.XOXO.
In each piece, her story resonates, shaped by femininity, motherhood, and the desire to create without giving up any part of her identity. Her art is not just an aesthetic expression but an affirmation of life in all its dimensions: strength and fragility, chaos and order, devotion and the assertion of her own space.
Color is an extension of her voice, a tool with which she builds her universe. Bold and vibrant tones merge, reflecting the intensity and calm that coexist in her daily life. Each hue is a heartbeat, a mood, an emotion encapsulated in matter.
Being a woman and a mother has been, for her, a continuous act of balance—a dance between caring for others and caring for herself. Her work emerges from this point of tension, where the intimate and the collective intersect, where routine turns into poetry, and where art becomes both a refuge and a battlefield. Every brushstroke, every texture, every color is a declaration of presence: here she is—whole, powerful, leaving her mark.
Motherhood in her work is not just a theme but a latent energy, a physical and emotional transformation that permeates everything. Her children are not only part of her life but also part of her creative process—both inspiration and challenge. Creation and caregiving intertwine in an uncompromising dialogue where the woman does not disappear behind the mother but rather coexists, complements, and strengthens.
Her femininity is neither complacent nor stereotypical.
It is visceral, real, built from experience—from a body that changes, nurtures, carries, sustains, and fights. Her works hold the memory of generations of women who have woven their own narratives from silence and resistance, women who have sought in art a space for expression and freedom.
But beyond home, family, and the body, her art also speaks of the need to find peace in disorder, to create beauty in the everyday, to find joy in the fleeting. Her pieces serve as both refuge and mirror, inviting us to look closely at life, to celebrate the essential, and to value what often goes unnoticed.
This exhibition is an act of affirmation—a Second Wind where the woman who creates, nurtures, and reinvents herself is found. The mother who transforms her reality into art. The artist who, through color and form, reveals that being a woman means embodying strength, light, and history woven with each step. In every stroke, there is resilience; in every color, a profound affirmation of identity; and in every piece, a vibrant celebration of the diversity and depth of femininity.
Text by Rocío Gutiérrez García (Director at Fundación Montenmedio Contemporánea)
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