BETA is pleased to announce ‘Cuando pienso dejo de sentir’, Juan Perdiguero Trillo’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

‘Cuando pienso dejo de sentir’ takes us into the tension between freedom and confinement, a quiet rebellion articulated through his hands and his medium. Here, painting isn’t bound to conventions or institutions, and its act is both instinctive and intentional. 

Juan’s approach takes root in his beginnings as a street artist, painting walls in his native Spain, where murals and passing trains became his first canvases. He retains the nomadic spirit of his early work, now reaching indoors, into more traditional exhibition spaces. This oscillation between interior and exterior, structured and unstructured, studio and street, challenges the very boundaries we place around art: where it belongs, who it’s for, and what it’s worth.

He paints animals in vivid motion, caught mid-step or airborne. Always together, they are unified by a pulse that doesn’t rest. Each figure—simple, direct, and alive—represents both individuality and shared energy. These figures are not merely animals; they are symbols, infused with movement, which represent a journey of freedom and self-discovery without a fixed endpoint. His use of animals speaks to a reverence for the natural world, yet also for something deeper—a belief in connection and in shared existence.

Perdiguero’s work emphasizes the physical qualities of his materials, exploring the interaction between surface and color. Using acrylic paint through layered techniques gives equal weight to both precision and raw immediacy, capturing both the velocity and stillness inherent in his subjects. Custom backdrops constructed from wood, plaster, and other materials introduce a sculptural quality to his canvases, situating the work at the intersection of painting and object-making. 

Throughout ‘Cuando pienso dejo de sentir’, freedom is a question not of escape but of engagement—of what we choose to see, to feel, to remember, and who we choose to be (with). Through the rhythms of animals and skies, painted rituals, and shared courage, Perdiguero invites us to imagine a world unbound by divisions.

The exhibition asks us: What does it mean to be free? And, as we turn toward each other, how much of ourselves do we find? It moves us to consider freedom not merely as a word but as an act. Here, freedom is an endless exploration, the release from a rigid self to allow connection with others. Perdiguero’s work suggests that, in seeking freedom, we find each other, and in finding each other, we expand ourselves.

Juan Perdiguero Trillo was born in Aranda de Duero, Spain (1996). From an early age he was part of the graffiti movement in his hometown. Later that interest in painting led him to pursue a degree at the University of Fine Arts in Salamanca (USAL). He is currently an active member of the NVS collective, and lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.