Manuela Generali
Switzerland, 1948

Born in frugal post-war Ticino, Manuela Generali took on a life of wandering as soon as she could choose. At nineteen she would move to London where she began her plastic exploration at the Wimbledon School of Arts.
At the age of twenty, she were crossing the Istanbul Strait with a team of young filmmakers heading to the refugee camps in Jordan. Over the next decade she would traverse the disparate landscapes of Sardinia, Rome, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires and Lima before arriving in the country that would become her most enduring home, Mexico.
Generali's painting, like a travel log, has always been a sensitive reflection of her changing surroundings. However, her essential drive has remained unchanged: to hold tightly to all that is destined to vanish.