The Matisse Art Gallery in Marrakech and the Cervantes Institute present the exhibition ‘Siempre volver’

The Cervantes Institute in Marrakech and the Matisse Art Gallery are organising the exhibition ‘Siempre volver’ by Spanish artist Carla Querejeta Roca, a visual journey through the places, memories and emotions that have marked her life and work.

Carla Querejeta Roca was born in Pamplona, grew up between Madrid and Tangier and currently lives in Toulouse. For more than two decades, her painting has explored the relationship between human beings and the spaces they inhabit, and how memory and geography construct identity. In her works, the material — torn fabrics, wood, colour and gesture — is transformed into a territory of search and reconstruction, where life is made, unmade and reborn.

‘Tangier has been part of my life for as long as I can remember,’ confesses the artist. Her work is permeated by this luminous city, present in every texture and every stroke: the rooftops of the medina, the breeze from the Strait, the sound of the sea and the nostalgia for her roots. Other landscapes also coexist on her canvases—Paris, Madrid, Sri Lanka, Toulouse—which, as she herself says, converge in the same channel: ‘All rivers flow into Tangier.’

The exhibition ‘Siempre volver’ brings together a selection of recent pieces that dialogue with this idea of return and permanence, of travel and belonging. A work that invites us to look at the world through emotion and memory, through a pictorial sensibility that transcends the limits of the painting.

Carla Querejeta Roca's exhibition ‘Siempre volver’ can be seen at the Matisse Art Gallery in Marrakech until 8 December 2025.