The Arab Baths Cultural Centre in Jaén hosts the exhibition

Ver(de) mar de ver(de) tierra, by Lita Cabellut, from 17 March to 19 April 2026

It is an artistic project of deep symbolic and aesthetic charge that represents, within the work of Lita Cabellut, one of her most intense and moving expressions. This exhibition is naturally integrated into one of the most emblematic heritage spaces in Andalusia, establishing a dialogue between contemporary art, history and territory.

Inspired by a direct and revealing experience in Jaén, the artist conceives this exhibition as a tribute to Mother Earth, to the cultivation of the olive tree and, above all, to the people who have inhabited and worked this landscape for generations. The olive grove – that green ocean that visually and emotionally defines our province – becomes here a living metaphor of resistance, memory and belonging. It is not a simple landscape background, but a silent protagonist, with different faces, different people, who crosses the works and gives them meaning.

The pieces on display, created specifically for this project, reveal Cabellut's unmistakable plastic dialectic: faces of great expressive force, torn surfaces, superimposed layers and an almost telluric materiality that refers directly to the worked earth, to the dry terroir from which the olive tree extracts that liquid gold that is oil. The stroke, the color and the texture evoke the furrows of the countryside, the hands tanned by the sun, the looks that contain stories of effort, dignity and rootedness. Each portrait functions as an emotional archive where the individual merges with the collective.

In this way, the exhibition establishes a bridge between human heritage and artistic heritage, aligning itself with the historical vocation of the Arab Baths of Jaén as a cultural meeting space. In this context, Cabellut's work dialogues with the millenary memory of the place, activating a contemporary reading of the past and projecting it into the present. Tradition is not represented in a nostalgic way, but transformed into plastic language, gesture and symbol. In resistance.

On the other hand, the project also finds literary resonances in Antonio Machado's verses, especially in his look at the fields of Baeza, where landscape and soul are confused. That same tension between hardness and beauty, between roughness and depth, runs through the entire exhibition. The climate, the light and the character of the province are reflected in the characters portrayed: strong women, men linked to the land, communities sustained by deep and silent bonds.

Ver(de) mar de ver(de) tierra is, in short, an exhibition that invites us to contemplate Jaén from an artistic and emotional perspective, to recognise in its people and its landscape a living legacy that Lita Cabellut has known how to make flesh and earth. An essential aesthetic and cultural experience to understand the deep identity of this land.

For more information & the catalogue of the exhibition, visit Baños Arabes de Jaén