Primera Prueba
In tailoring, the first fitting (Primera prueba) is the moment when the suit meets the body for the first time. It is not yet finished: seams are open, edges loose, pins still visible. The aim is not to display it, but to test whether the idea fits reality, whether the form can hold movement, whether […]
One Poetrick a Day
‘Poetricks’, Calligaro’s nimble interventions, are small linguistic nudges that open a detour. Discreet in their black-and-white economy and precise typography, they seem unwilling to demand attention, yet something tilts the moment you encounter them: a twist, a tiny verbal glitch that unsettles what you thought you recognised. Their strength is in this understatement. Simple signals […]
Deconstructie
For Erris Huigens, a work begins not as an image but as an action. A gesture that extends into space and quietly reorganises how we experience it. Coming from derelict industrial buildings as his usual “canvas”, Huigens works with surfaces marked by time: walls that carry the slow accumulation of weather, use and neglect. The […]
Selected Poems
Fabio Viscogliosi’s Selected Poems appear in black and white, their primordial state, in a deliberately bare presentation. We are invited to join the artist in an intimate space: the source of his imagery, where things softly begin to take form. Here, Fabio shows his world as it is: open and unguarded, where his drawings, paintings, […]
Masaje Scanner
“Masaje Scanner” is the third in a series of massages that Idoia Zabaleta began in 2017 with “Masaje de texto” and continued in 2021 with “Pupa, pupita, pupila. Un masaje de la visión”. On 20 May 2023, she inaugurated this piece, which was conceived for the Atoi space (Bilbao), in her first exhibition, coinciding with […]
Images
The last time I was in Tanya’s studio, she read the following quote from Guy Debord’s 1967 canonical work, “Society of the Spectacle,” to me: “The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point that it becomes images.” Nearly 60 years later, with social media having wrapped its tentacles around every part of the world, it’s […]
nineteeneightyseven
What happens before anything happens. nineteeneightyseven turns toward that suspended, pre-human interval where matter hasn’t yet committed, where form is still negotiating its own arrival, where time has not yet stepped forward. The year preceding the artist’s birth becomes a lens, a way of examining the world as pure potential. Pacelli engages this territory with […]
Pain of Pleasure
Pain of Pleasure Text by Domenico de Chirico In Western thought, pleasure has always been conceived as a positive, compensatory, at times domesticated experience — one capable of offering a brief reprieve from the sense of emptiness. Yet each time pleasure asserts itself, it also reveals its own negation. There is no pleasure without risk, […]
NECKWREATH
In her solo exhibition NECKWREATH, Tysse explores the delicate threshold between support and constraint. Through sculpture, drawing, and textile, she reconfigures garments such as the liturgical ruff and the corset into new sculptural work, regarding them as prosthetic extensions of both inner and outer structures. The clerical collar– the ruff– is said to symbolize the […]
Appendage
Emil Walde moves at the intersection of sculpture and installation, between materiality and meaning. The starting point of his work is the industrially manufactured object – metal hooks, wires, screws, or technical components – whose original function he questions and transfers into new aesthetic and spatial contexts. At the core of Walde’s artistic practice lies […]