Resilience Unveiled: Lita Cabellut
"Each work becomes a mirror of inner resilience."
We are delighted to invite you to the exhibition Resilience Unveiled by internationally acclaimed artist Lita Cabellut. During the exhibition, you will have the opportunity to admire her latest works up close and engage in conversation with Lita Cabellut, who will be present at the opening.
OPENING
Saturday, 27 September
15:00 - 17:00
MPV Gallery Oisterwijk
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info@mpvgallery.com
Internationally acclaimed artist Lita Cabellut presents her latest body of work in the exhibition Resilience Unveiled at MPV Gallery in Oisterwijk. The exhibition consists of 20 pieces that offer an intimate and unique insight into the artist’s world. Resilience Unveiled opens on Saturday, 27th September at MPV Gallery. This new exhibition follows Cabellut’s recent successes in two of the most important institutions in Spain: Goya x Lita Cabellut - Los Disparates at the Royal Academy of Arts in Madrid and a retrospective at Fundación Bancaja in Valencia.
In Resilience Unveiled, Cabellut presents a series of 20 portraits that explore the tension between vulnerability and strength. Her work goes beyond formal representation: it emerges from what she calls a “tormenting responsibility,” an existential drive that transforms painting into an act of revelation. What springs from her inner world finds on the canvas not only a form, but also a field of resistance and affirmation of life.
Cabellut’s work embodies a paradox: fragmentation becomes a sign of abundance; the scar of a wound turns into an emblem of resilience. Her portraits, although enigmatic and fragmented, convey the power of shared intimacy—the capacity of individual experience to expand into a collective horizon.
According to international art critic Fernando Castro Flórez, “Lita has a ‘devouring vision.’ We must remember that the etymology of the verb to look points to force, and therefore to violence. Lita’s work is truly dazzling—a phenomenon for the eye that opens a territory of reverie, intensely material.”
The apparent absence of the gaze in these works is not empty, but a gesture of resistance, manifesting itself through silence and opacity. Cabellut challenges conventional ways of representing the feminine: instead of idealization or victimization, she offers complex and enigmatic subjects, marked by history and memory. As Caspar David Friedrich once said, “Art should behave like a child […] The only real source of art is our heart, the language of a pure childlike mind.”
The use of intense colors, pictorial fragments, and cracked textures introduces a materiality that transcends the aesthetic. The break does not indicate destruction, but a trace; it is not a ruin, but an inscription of experience. In this way, Cabellut creates a visual language in which the fragmentary and the unfinished become conditions for resilience.
To unveil resilience is to reveal what often remains hidden: the ability to reset and rebuild in contexts of inequality, violence, or exclusion. Cabellut does not conceal the traces of wounds but instead makes them the core of expressive force. The result challenges viewers critically, placing them before figures that are at once fragile and powerful, absent yet radically present.
Resilience Unveiled forms part of a broader reflection on the representation of the feminine in contemporary art. Rather than offering a closed narrative, the exhibition opens a space of confrontation where each portrait invites us to reconsider what it means to resist, and how dignity is built from fragmentation.
