Carla Gia (Barcelona, 1993) is a Spanish visual artist based in United Arab Emirates.
She has been painting since the age of eight, when, through a therapeutic process, painting became her primary form of expression beyond language. This early relationship with the medium developed into an intuitive and independent practice rooted in abstraction.
Working primarily in black and white, her work explores the notion of duality through a restrained visual language, where gesture and materiality take central importance.
Her paintings are held in private collections across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and her work forms part of the collection of the Spanish Embassy in the United Arab Emirates.
Gia’s work is centered on the tension between opposing forces, creating compositions that seek balance within contrast.
Project Statement
I paint the paradoxical tension that exists between opposites.
A balance that resides within human polarities.
Black and white hold, in silence, what cannot be said—a space where chaotic contrast becomes stillness.
