In the exhibition Stuck, at first glance, Angela de la Cruz's paintings seem to have been vandalized or blatantly abused. Deformed or broken racks and crooked canvases are then hung on the wall or propped on the floor as trophies. Although this act of modifying the forms is completely deliberate and systematic, it is, itself, what informs the final result.
Emotionally raw, shrewd and sharply ironic, de la Cruz considers her vision of the language of painting, incorporating the self-destruction of painting into the work itself: "The moment I cut the canvas, I get rid of the grandeur of the history of painting".
Violent, unapologetic and often darkly humorous, his work unflinchingly exposes a visceral emotionality, breaking the barriers of established pictorial norms. The implicit feeling left by the scenes is that an activity of frenzied violence has just occurred. It remains, in a strange way, in its own leaving the paradoxical feeling of an energy that goes out and a feeling of calm that is both threatening and inevitable.
