Welcome to Amara Por Dios's extensive two-floor exhibition at Norrtälje Art Gallery.
Amara Por Dios, born in Stockholm in 1988, is an internationally active artist with roots in graffiti culture. Her art is characterised by strong colours, organic forms, and an visual language where mythology, spirituality, and folk symbols meet. With the spray can as her primary tool, she has created large-scale murals worldwide, often bordering on the urban and the ritualistic.
The exhibition, titled Wonders, explores the frontier between the visible and the invisible. Drawing inspiration from intuition, spirituality and the spiritual, the viewer is invited into a world where dreams, emotions and existential questions are given space. The exhibition features works in several different techniques and materials, with Amara further developing her expression through sculpture, ceramics, wood, papier-mâché and glass.
The creation began as an intuitive and soulful storytelling, where Amara as a child could disappear into her own visual worlds for hours. The figures that populated these worlds have since continued to develop in her artistic work. The motifs draw inspiration from mythologies, religions and folk art from different parts of the world.
At an early age, she discovered graffiti culture and moved to London in 2012, where she could work more freely with her art. She quickly established herself as an artist there and was named one of the UK's leading female street artists by The Guardian in 2014.
In Norrtälje, Amara Por Dios is already known through the work Watch You Grow, a large-scale mural on the facade of the old Stadshotel from 2022. The work is based on themes such as growth, care, and joy of life, and combines organic forms with colours inspired by the town's architecture and nature. The imaginative visual language, where vegetation and figures are interwoven, creates a powerful visual experience that invites both interpretation and presence in public spaces.
The exhibition Wonders is based on the mystery of the unknown, dreams, the wonders of everyday life, motherhood, and the infinity of the universe. The exhibition in Norrtälje highlights both new and previous works, offering an in-depth insight into the artist's visual universe. Visitors will encounter an expressive and colourful visual language where goddesses, beings, and symbols interact.
Closed: Sundays and Mondays.
Jimmy Gustafsson
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