A House with a view

Excerpt from a text by Julia Ritterskamp, 2025

What is the common thread that ties together the work of this Düsseldorf-based artist? Baltazares questions ideas of identity and beauty, revealing the fragility and occasional absurdity of values shaped by predominantly Western societies. Through humor, irony, and an instinctively appealing color palette, her work invites and unsettles the viewer at once. The small-format works on paper, Saudades, evoke a bittersweet, backward-looking longing—something that exists only in memory, and not always reliably so. As in the larger works, reality and imagination begin to blur, opening a space where meaning remains fluid and unresolved.