Laura Pretto Vargas

Disturbo is a portrait of internal disruption—a visceral depiction of psychological unrest made visible through raw, unrestrained gesture. With a palette of searing reds, bruised purples, and sudden bursts of yellow, the painting evokes the sensation of a mind overwhelmed—where thought, emotion, and sensation collide in relentless motion.

 

The aggressive, swirling brushwork moves like synapses misfiring, like a nervous system exposed. Crimson and violet conjure anger, confusion, and intensity, while flashes of yellow and green hint at fleeting moments of clarity—brief windows of calm before the next wave of chaos. There are no defined shapes here, only rupture and rhythm. The absence of form reflects a state of emotional fragmentation, where meaning slips and identity wavers.

 

There is no effort to soothe, no need to resolve. Disturbo doesn’t seek to make sense of the storm—it simply allows it to be. It lays bare the noise, the static, the tremor beneath the skin. A confrontation with the parts of the self we often silence.

 

It is not only a work about disruption—

but about the raw, electric beauty of survival.

The moment just before collapse… or clarity.