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Valeria Ortega's work forces us to consider the tissue. Meat is the primary concern of his paintings, meat whose variety of texture reminds us that we, too, are devourable items, no different from what we eat. Here it is impossible to forget that the egg is a chicken zygote, the Toulouse sausage an ex-vivo animal pulp. It is a twist of pure reality.
Ortega has not only stopped at the dead body. Living tissue in human contact forms, beyond a simple metaphor, a connection so basic that it seems inevitable, and at the same time full of a desire beyond. Touching is not enough: to satisfy the …