“Being an adult and being a girl, being rational and absurd, realistic and dreamlike — these contradictions coexist to keep me alive.” - Mara Faúndez.
“Being a woman, at least at 26, means constantly living in contradiction — tender and tough, vulnerable and strong, lost and yet oriented. It’s about inhabiting that limbo between childhood and adulthood.” - Florencia Viñuela.
Isabel Croxatto Galería presents Girl, so confusing, a duo exhibition by young Chilean artists, Mara Faúndez and Florencia Viñuela. The show explores the tension between childhood and adulthood through a contemporary feminine experience. The works question the notion of a linear transition: childhood is not a past to be left behind, but an active force that coexists with adulthood, shaping decisions, memories, and affections.
Through painting, objects, and everyday imagery, Faúndez and Viñuela build a language where the absurd, the tender, and the fierce intertwine to reveal that being a girl is often contradictory. Girl, so confusing invites viewers to enter a limbo filled with symbols and rituals—a secret language that resists classification—and to read femininity as a site of creative friction rather than a predetermined destiny.
