Empathy II

Boutens’ work highlights the values with which human beings have been vibrating for centuries: Ethics as a transcendence of things well-made, that makes us feel the hand of the sculptor on the original clay and directly projects her vision of the human figure without instruments.
They are figures born as crucible of inner experience, that respond to her personal requirements of a figurative born from placidly sliding her eyes over them; a gaze driven by soft yet powerful sculpturesque forms that incite one to touch them.
Sculpturesque rhythms merge into the surrounding space in dialogues with an interior of great lyricism, in the roundness of uncut volumes, in the attitude of the figures that lead to a willingness to feel, to be in a place, to be in a quiet and peaceful time from where it is possible to reflect.
In addition, Boutens brings the cultural fact of all that is continuity of historical knowledge in which it is inscribed. Hers, in short, is an artwork that feels matured in calm times that lead to reflection or silence.
Isabel Cabanellas Aguilera