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Calle 18 #16-06 Pereira, Risaralda.
To Remember Love: A Fine Art Exhibition of Live Wedding Paintings by Nata Coneja
To Remember Love is a pictorial project born from the desire to preserve, through painting, what we love. Emerging from the experience of live wedding painting, the project reflects on memory, emotion, and the way we kept certain moments with us.
The initial motivation behind this project was the desire to deepen both the technical and logistical aspects of working in this context. Painting during a wedding involves challenges very different from those of the studio: the speed of execution, the ability to quickly construct a composition, the concentration required to sustain several hours of work in front of an audience, and the sensitivity needed to read the atmosphere of the place and translate it visually.
Alongside these technical aspects come practical considerations: deciding which materials to bring, how to protect the works during transportation, and how to organize the timing before, during, and after each event so that everything flows naturally within a carefully planned celebration.
Throughout this process, I discovered that every wedding is its own world. Although from the outside they may seem to follow a similar structure, the energy of the people changes, the rhythms shift, and the way a space is inhabited completely transforms the experience. The décor, the light, and the emotional dynamics give each work its own identity.
Beyond visually representing an event, my interest lies in creating a kind of time capsule capable of preserving something of the emotion of the day. Colors, textures, and expressions become a record of that unrepeatable moment. I like to think of these works as objects that, over the years, may remind couples of the beginning of a new chapter and of the love that led them to celebrate their union.
I decided to transform this experience into an exhibition because these works usually go directly into the homes of the couples who commission them. Since there is an entire process of artistic research behind this series, it felt important to share its results and bring the emotion of the wedding day into other spaces.
To exhibit also means to expose oneself. As an artist, I am interested in allowing the work to enter into dialogue with the viewer, and in how the emotions awakened in those who observe it ultimately complete the piece.
Although I have been doing Live Weeding paintings for several years,
I felt that the academic and investigative dimension behind the practice often remained hidden behind the spectacle of the event itself. Due to my background in art and research, it is natural for me to constantly formulate questions and allow the practice itself to gradually reveal possible answers. Each work becomes a space for conscious exploration, where the act of painting also becomes a way of investigating.
To Remember Love was developed during the first three months of 2026 as part of an exploration centered on live wedding painting and portrait work.
The project concluded with an exhibition of the paintings at Hotel Visus in Pereira, Colombia, held from May 12 to 16, 2026. This presentation brought together the completed body of work and offered a public view into the scale, process, and visual language of the project.