Fragments of a Manuscript brings together the most recent work of Andrea Grau, a pictorial exploration where gesture becomes an intimate record of time and memory. Her canvases condense the experience of returning to Lima after a period away, of inhabiting once again a climate that imposes its monotony of gray skies, without horizon or depth, where the light always seems suspended.

Here, painting approaches writing. In her daily life, Grau notes down stray words, overheard phrases, readings, song lyrics: fragments of a manuscript that is never completed. On the canvas, those notes transform into gestures, strokes that function as emotional inscriptions rather than legible signs.

The artist’s studio has become a fundamental part of this rituality. On its walls and floors, the gestures that began on the canvas extend outward, expanding the work beyond the limits of the frame. It is a natural habitat, a home-space where the creative process unfolds as a constant performative act. There, week after week, new pieces emerge, many of them brought together in this exhibition.

In these works, gesture is not representation but inscription: fragments of a writing without words, marks that cannot be read, but can be felt. Each stroke becomes a trace of an emotional state, a spectral manuscript of the invisible. In this way, Grau proposes painting as a space of emotional resonance, a place where intimacy takes form and the melancholy of return is transformed into poetic matter.