Marta Ruiz Anguera’s work combines traditional painting techniques and motifs with new media through conceptual art.

Her detailed paintings of screenshots investigate the role of traditional figurative art in the digital age. The interfaces through which we interact, although seemingly impersonal, allow the artist to intimately portray our human condition making our relationship with new media more real, more human.

By decontextualizing the screen through her work, her paintings reflect on how art is created and shared through the Internet in an ironic and satirical way: ‘My iPhone does it better’ or ‘I want to paint but I don’t know what to paint’. With contemporary symbols and imagery, the artist explains universal human experiences. She represents our new virtual life is by revisiting major artistic genres, as in ‘The New Filter of Ter’ reinterpreting portrait with selfies, or our relationship with landscapes with ‘Ok Google, take me home’.

In works like ‘Gracias’ or ‘Wait a minute...I want to remember this’, the artist intimately portrays herself and her relationship with the world, exposing a pure human behaviourand leaving us to wonder how real the virtual is.