Je suis veritablement un goutte du soleil sous la terre.: Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá

Magola Moreno is an artist who fully defines the term "Ars Gratia Artis", a Greek phrase that describes that action that consists of creating art for itself, without objective or definition, bringing it to be present with no other purpose than its mere presence, foreign. . to academicism, immune to its criticism and subordinated only to its pictorial expression and its creative process, Magola paints in isolation on the outskirts of a marginal settlement in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, Pueblo Bello (also called 'Arumake' or 'sanctuary' in the local ethnic language). This is a rural village surrounded by Amerindian settlements of the Arhuaco and Kogui ethnic groups, with a majority Of the population being Afro-Colombian. It is from this plural community that the characters that inhabit her paintings emerge.

Through the intimacy of her work, Magola Moreno proposes an immersive approach to the environment of her characters. For them, they create idealistic conditions to resignify their presence in a place foreign to their own, an imaginary opposite to the reality they inhabit, where they recover their right of citizenship and exercise a sense of aspirational idealization and opulence over themselves.