Tomás Juan Urrutia Sodi was born in Caracas in 1969 and has lived in Mexico for most of his life. His work is shaped by the memory of a family painting inspired by Alfredo Ramos Martínez's Virgen de la Soledad, an image that remained as a quiet presence within his personal imagination.
In Vírgenes del Pueblo, that memory returns through calm, intimate figures surrounded by flowers, mantles, and rebozos. Painted in acrylic on jute, the series draws on rustic materiality and popular Mexican sensibility to create universal feminine symbols suspended between spirituality, protection, and collective memory.
