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Hand painted by R.SERRA, 2025.
Dimensions: 123cm (w) x 153cm (h) x 4cm (d).
Mixed-media on canvas.
More than a historical figure, Doña Felipa is evoked as an archetype, the woman who safeguards knowledge, who speaks with the invisible, and who sustains life through words that become remedies. Her presence guides the exhibition and offers an invitation to reconnect with roots, rituals, and the spiritual intelligence woven into everyday life.
In this large-scale painting, R. SERRA evokes the quiet gravity of Doña Felipa as she moves through the mountains toward the site of her healing ritual. The work unfolds as a passage rather than a portrait, capturing a moment suspended between intention and action.
Felipa is encircled by fields of calla lilies, flowers long associated in Mexican culture with renewal, rebirth, and feminine strength. Two monkeys accompany her, one meeting the viewer’s gaze with quiet curiosity, whilst the other reaches towards her in a gesture of recognition and kinship.
Barefoot, Felipa stands grounded in the soil, her body tethered to the land beneath her. Around her, rocks and Mesoamerican clay figures surface from the earth, anchoring the scene in ancestral memory and reinforcing the painting’s role as both landscape and invocation.
