The artist and teacher Rosa Vera has inaugurated this week the exhibition The Time and the Story (1985–2026), a retrospective that covers more than four decades of artistic creation through collage as an expressive and conceptual language. The exhibition can be visited at the Pancho Lasso School of Art until March 21, from Monday to Friday, from 08:00 to 22:00.
Rosa Vera's work is configured as a visual testimony of transformation, which invites the viewer to move between lived time and the stories that each piece holds. Through collage, the artist not only constructs images: she proposes a system of thought capable of deciphering existence from the fragmentary. The exhibition allows us to clearly observe the evolution of her artistic practice, which starts from a profoundly pictorial origin, in which composition and the use of color establish the foundations of her plastic universe, to advance towards a progressive occupation of space.
Over time, her works acquire volume in the so-called "bowls of life", tactile pieces that evoke symbolic receptacles where the essence of the feminine experience seems to be deposited. This evolution is accompanied by a growing political and emotional charge, visible in the incorporation of elements such as felt eyes and mouths marked by the idea of the gag, which allude to imposed silence and the feminine gaze in the face of the passage of time.
In her most recent works, presented in 2026, the artist from Lanzarote introduces the mirror as a transformative element both formally and conceptually. By intervening on reflective surfaces, the work ceases to be a closed object and becomes a space that expands and multiplies. The collage on mirror allows each piece to dialogue with its surroundings, duplicating images and directly involving the viewer, who becomes an active part of the narrative by seeing themselves reflected in it.
Rosa Vera was a student at the Pancho Lasso Art School. She studied Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna and at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp (Belgium). With a consolidated career at the intersection of plastic creation, design, and teaching, her work has been exhibited in reference centers in the Canary Islands, as well as on international platforms in Belgium and the Netherlands. She is currently a professor of Plastic Arts at IES Blas Cabrera in Arrecife, an activity she combines with intense creative and exhibition work.