Sarah EMERSON's paintings consist of a large variety of signs that superimpose one another; these multiple layers of signs expose and conceal from the audience the same number of stratums, often contradictory. Between abstract and figurative, the pictorial universe of Sarah EMERSON uses the violence and romantic sadness of the natural landscape to provoke a sense of fragility and melancholic instability beneath the surface of the image. Ferocity and suspense of action are recurrent narratives, suggesting an eerie tension between the subjects amid the collapse of a flattened, abstract background. Nostalgic and symbolic, her paintings embrace sincerity and ambiguity in times that she believes are hardened by the disintegration of real emotional and literal landscapes. Using sweet and bitter metaphors of our fantasized times, the works of Sarah EMERSON relate the figurative in nature - wounded animals, dead trees, recurrence of the representation of the stag - and abstract motifs inspired by pop aesthetics. The heavy varnish that she uses to cover the surface of her paintings adds a film dimension to the visual experience that the artist has to offer us.