Solterones – JORGE PARRA

Jorge Parra (Madrid, 1990)

Acrylic on kraft paper

62 x 103 cm

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The exhibition ‘Parraland’ by artist Jorge Parra takes us on a journey to a hybrid universe where historical figures, reinvented characters and beings from the artist’s imagination coexist. This fictional territory unfolds like a distorted mirror, revealing 1920s Spain, a period when the country was beginning to open up to new aesthetic and cultural influences from England.

Parra’s starting point is the arrival in Spain of Queen Victoria Eugenia, whose presence introduced a marked British sensibility to the court and sectors of Spanish society. From that moment on, elements such as English aristocratic fashion, fabrics with sober lines, straight cuts, discreet tones and a taste for sporting elegance began to permeate everyday life. Social activities such as tennis, which had previously been marginal, acquired unexpected relevance and became symbols of modernity, distinction and cosmopolitanism.

In this real historical context, Jorge Parra inserts his own mental landscape: characters from another era wearing reinterpreted English clothing, popular heroes who acquire the composure of an imagined aristocracy, anachronistic figures who dialogue between tradition and modernity. The exhibition constructs a scenario in which the historical and the fantastic coexist without hierarchy, generating a visual narrative that reflects on how external influences are incorporated, transformed and finally integrated into cultural identity.

Parraland is thus an intermediate territory: a Spain that absorbs the British and an imaginary that in turn absorbs history. The artist turns each work into a fragment of that possible country, where fashion, sport, aristocracy, popular culture and invention mix to reveal the power of aesthetics as a driver of social change.