‘Ritmo en Capa’ by M. Lohrum explores body, gesture and presence at the Fundación Canaria de Arte Tranche
The exhibition by M. Lohrum brings together recent works based on performative processes, dance, meditation and bodily gesture, alongside a performance created especially for the occasion.
The Fundación Canaria de Arte Tranche presents ‘Ritmo en Capa’, an exhibition by Tenerife-born artist M. Lohrum, whose practice focuses on the embodied experience of art and the creation of images through performative processes.
Lohrum’s work is rooted in drawing, but extends into painting, performance and other media. Her practice is built around the dialogue between body, gesture, movement, materiality and trace, exploring ideas such as presence, meditation and human nature through a minimalist and monochromatic aesthetic.
Rather than pursuing a preconceived image, her pieces emerge from open processes in which intuition, chance and spontaneity play an essential role. The artist establishes specific rules for each action — including the choice of materials, movements and gestures — while allowing the final result to preserve the tension between control and randomness, reasoning and intuition, personal experience and universal resonance.
Influenced by early interests in dance, yoga and meditation, Lohrum works through full attention to the present moment. During the creative process, the body, sensations and emotions become tools of artistic production, freeing the image from figurative representation and opening it to a more fluid philosophy of form.
‘Ritmo en Capa’ brings together recent works from two series. The first, ‘Snippets of Rhythm’, emerges from dance-based performances carried out on large unprimed canvases. In these actions, repetitive movements are associated with different drawing materials. Once the performance is complete, the canvas is often fragmented to highlight specific marks or gestures. The result is a group of images positioned between performative drawing and abstract gestural painting, where the full dance action disappears but the traces of the body remain.
The second series, ‘Rituals’, is also created through actions on large-scale canvases, though here the starting point is not dance but Zen philosophy. These works continue to give the body a central role, but through a more restrained energy focused on subtle elements such as breathing, touch and meditative gesture. Repetition becomes less prominent, giving way to a quieter and more contemplative approach expressed through a more austere and minimalist visual language.
The exhibition also includes a performance created specifically for this occasion and presented at the Fundación Canaria de Arte Tranche.
The exhibition runs from 24 April to 20 August 2026. It can be visited on Thursdays from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 19:15. From Monday to Wednesday and on Fridays, visits are available by appointment via fundacion@fcat.org.es.