[From 6th to 25th of NOVEMBER of 2025. Sala Antonio López of the Antiguo Hospital de Santa María la Rica]
ADARA FOREVER. The worlds of Daniela Rampa and Adara Sánchez
Adara Sánchez is an illustrator from Seville, now based in Bilbao. She combines editorial work with campaigns for major brands and film poster design. This exhibition focuses on that latter facet —with posters for feature and short films, original works, and glimpses into her creative process.
The first gallery offers a special stop on her work for Daniela Forever (Nacho Vigalondo, 2024), where her art became that of the film’s protagonist, Daniela Rampa, played by Beatrice Granno (The White Lotus). The exhibition combines original pieces from the film with near life-size reproductions, displayed for the first time in the large format conceived for this contemporary classic of romantic science fiction.
A RED LINE, A BLUE LINE
What is that showing through beneath your skin, inside your hand? Look at the back,
the palm, the wrist, the forearm. There’s a meaning emerging from a lower layer.
It seems as if someone has been drawing it as you breathe.
A red line, a blue line. Start there. They cross, they throb. They’re a structure, a portal.
Technical as the blueprint of an abandoned building, yet covered with delicate tissues, vegetation, and a deep study of mass and color.
The whole has evolved into a style that has become unmistakable.
You can see it clearly now. A red line and a blue one intertwining,
surfacing more in some areas than others, glimpsed like the back of a whale about to rise for air.
Over them, hundreds of layers in other colors and countless, unexpected textures of varying weight.
The lines aren’t thin —they’re sharp. Someone has sharpened them to draw freely, lightly, yet precisely.
It’s intricate engineering of sensitivity if you get close during the construction process,
pure emotion when you stand two meters from the window.
It’s the precise stroke of a time-freezer —of light, of the least anticipated moment, the one you were about to forget.
A great hidden pain, a character halfway formed, a stitched twist.
A palette chosen either to resist the world’s darkness or surrender to it.
A contrast, a difference, a flickering insect almost caught but slipping away.
You’re an infusion of storm, simmering in the most tense and celebrated kitchen in Brussels;
a shard of sunlight within a black, liquid abyss; a strand of hair defying all others, a clean streak amid the blur.
Just as you’ve seen the films and now carry them inside you,
if you look at your wrists you’ll find a synthesis of each one —and an unexpected revelation:
Adara’s illustrations are filled with frames, lenses, and lights,
and you, beneath your skin, with your red line, your blue line —you are filled with Adara.
Elisa Victoria
Credits
All artwork courtesy of Adara Sánchez Anguiano.
Large-format pieces, video, and original notebooks from the film Daniela Forever courtesy of Sayaka Producciones.
Curated by: Pedro Toro
Exhibition text: Elisa Victoria
Graphic design: Emilio Lorente
Printing: Boomerang Graphics
Acknowledgements: Carola Rodríguez, Nahikari Ipiña, Nacho Vigalondo
Exhibition printed on recyclable, PVC-free materials.
