Vangar is pleased to present Intangible, the first solo exhibition by Bea Bonafini in Spain.

Bonafini’s practice proposes transformation through shifts in perception. Her works ask us to reconsider fixed categories and to embrace states of becoming, metamorphosis, and fluidity. Animal, vegetal, and anthropomorphic forms intertwine throughout the exhibition. Nothing appears static; instead, Bonafini’s universe is defined by perpetual motion and unfinished processes, echoed in titles such as Ablaze, Air Unravelling, Becoming, Swallowing Earth, and Waters Ferment. These works evoke birth, sexuality, death, and renewal, suggesting that endings are never final but part of an ongoing cycle of transformation. They speak of migration of souls, dreams, desire, and the mysterious forces that bind bodies and beings together.

A profound material inquiry lies at the core of Bonafini’s practice. Working across painting, textile, sculpture, and collage, the artist employs cork, wood, cotton from historical household linens, carpets, recycled fabrics, ceramics, oil, pastel, acrylic, and watercolour pencil. Through these layered surfaces and tactile assemblages, matter itself appears animated—constantly reorganising, combining, and evolving. Her figures seem to emerge from an ancient movement of particles and atoms, recalling the shared material origins of all life.

At a time marked by conflict, division, and increasing polarisation, Intangible proposes art as a space for connection and expanded sensitivity. Bonafini’s works invite reflection on what unites us as human beings, while also reminding us that we are inseparable from a wider ecosystem. Inspired in part by the writings of Emanuele Coccia, whose book Metamorphoses explores identity as a continuous exchange and transformation, Bonafini’s exhibition imagines existence as relational, porous, and shared. In Intangible, boundaries dissolve, forms merge, and life is revealed as an endless process of becoming.

The exhibition features a critical essay by Fanny Borel, curator at MAXXI L’Aquila.