Cinta

Upon arriving in Panama City, Georges Pauline experienced a profound sense of distance from home. In an attempt to familiarize herself with her new surroundings, she began observing the city’s infrastructure, the movement of cars, the rhythm of its streets, and the constant flow of urban life. Through abstraction, Cinta translates these observations into compositions of movement, color, and architectural fragments. The series explores the relationship between displacement, belonging, and the process of making an unfamiliar place feel like home. Painting became a way of understanding her new environment, finding familiarity through observation and connection through the city’s dynamism.

The Cinta series was presented in two exhibitions. Its first presentation took place in a collective street art exhibition in Casco Viejo, Panama City, where the raw, unstretched canvases were installed throughout an abandoned building. Visitors were invited to wander through illuminated rooms, experiencing the paintings within the architecture of the deteriorating space. The series was subsequently exhibited at Galería Marco Rama, offering a different context for the works and their exploration of urban movement, displacement, and belonging.