The exhibition by Joana Cera (Barcelona, ​​​​1965) that the Vila Casas Foundation has organized at the Blanquerna Cultural Center is a surprise and an oasis. In the middle of Madrid, the works of this artist evoke nature and ancestral knowledge with symbols such as the sun and the snake. The sculptures and installations on display recall a certain idea of ​​alchemy, as if they were between this world and another, or if they could be transformed from one moment to the next. The works of Cera, who defines herself as a conceptual artist, are imbued with a very personal mysticism. "In Joana Cera's work we find the will to overcome dualisms to reach a synthesis," says Natàlia Chocarro, the director of external projects for the foundation and the curator of the exhibition, whose inauguration was attended by the Minister of Culture, Sònia Hernández Almodóvar. "A synthesis between the human and the metaphysical, between the telluric and the cosmic, the physical and the intangible," she emphasizes.