Ana Barriga

Spanish artist Ana Barriga creates delightfully inventive and visually exuberant still lifes. Exploring flea markets and secondhand markets she gathers forgotten figurines, toys, and trinkets, discarded objects she then breaks apart, repaints, and rearranges into striking tabletop compositions.

These assemblages become powerful subjects for her vibrant oil and enamel paintings, where overlooked objects are transformed into theatrical and endearing compositions. Blending humor, irony, and art-historical references, Barriga's paintings revitalize the still-life tradition for the contemporary world.

Barriga lives and works in London.