Murciélagos

In 2020, De Obaldia began to draw continually to record and process the immense changes happening throughout the world. She became highly interested in bats, an animal crucial to our ecosystems yet much maligned recently, as humans have encroached on their habitats with devastating consequences.

There are over a thousand species of bats, and they have long been depicted in the art of cultures around the world, from ancient times to the present day. More than 140 species have been found in Panama, and representations of these in ancient gold artifacts, dating back to 850 BC. Based on this new interest, De Obaldía embarked on a series of new works in glass that present a visual metaphor that captures and interprets not only the current reality and the geopolitical events that affect us, but also the culture and history of the place in which we live.