Paula Cabral Muchacho (1992) is a Venezuelan–Spanish artist based in Barcelona whose practice explores presence, sensitivity, and the subtle dialogue between body, emotion, and space.

Her early experiences working across drawing, painting, installation, jewelry, and later studying and working in architecture in Venezuela, the United States, Chile, and Spain shaped her intuitive relationship with scale, proportion, composition, and conceptual thinking, which is reflected in her work. 

Paula’s work emerges from a meditative process of deep attention. Guided by emotion and the immediate conditions surrounding her—light, sound, humidity, spatial tension, and even chance—she creates mixed‑media pieces that embody the ephemeral quality of the present moment. Each work becomes a record of perception: a gesture suspended in time, rather than an object pursued through control. Her artworks are a consequence of her lived experiences. 

She has participated in exhibitions, art festivals, and auctions across Spain, Venezuela, and the United States. Her work has been featured at the Cruïlla Festival (Barcelona), Maza Art Auction (Madrid), Tejidos de Esperanza / Ascaso Gallery (Miami), and in Women United Art Magazine and Kave Gallery (Barcelona). She has held her first solo exhibition, Buscando el Presente, at the Centro Bellas Artes in Maracaibo (2024).

Beyond painting, Paula continues to expand her practice through artistic residencies and collaborative projects, exploring how heightened sensitivity can shape new modes of creation.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The moment I understood that life only happens in the present moment, my work transformed into an experiential search.

From an almost meditative place, I enter a state of total acceptance of what occurs, letting myself be guided by sensitivity toward everything I can perceive in that instant.

I let my emotions, my curiosity and the space I inhabit to guide me—and I allow myself to be affected by every element, even by those “coincidences” that escape my control, such as humidity, mood, sounds, light, the dimensions of my body…

The purpose of my work is its process —to live that experience. The final result is nothing more than a consequence of that process.

I conceive my art as presents suspended in time.