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SWAB Barcelona Art Fair
Presented Artists:

Carlos Herraiz
Bernardo  Montoya

03-06.10.2025
Vortex section, curated by Santiago Gasquet & Lena Solà Nogué
BETA Contemporary (ES) & Salón Comunal (CO)

Pabellón Textil, Av. Rius i Taulet 10
08004, Barcelona

Piedra e hilo - This joint presentation, the result of an exchange between a gallery in Colombia and one in Barcelona, is conceived as a territory of dialogue where the practices of Carlos Herraiz and Bernardo Montoya converge in an exploration of matter and its expressive potential. The collaboration embodies a conversation between contexts, geographies, and ways of inhabiting time through materiality.

Both Herraiz and Montoya understand matter as a living archive, a body capable of holding memory and transformation. In their works, materials are not only manipulated but also listened to. This attentiveness to the behavior of the material, its density, texture, resistance, or fragility, reveals a shared interest in allowing objects to speak, to let their presence assert itself before their representation.

The group of works oscillates between seemingly opposite poles: the light and the heavy, the rigid and the flexible, the stable and the ephemeral. This pendular movement, which is also a metaphor for the exchange between the two artists and their contexts, articulates a poetics of unstable balance. The pieces seem to situate themselves on a threshold, suspended between inertia and impulse, between trace and possibility.

The alliance between the two galleries thus becomes a natural extension of the works themselves, a gesture of openness, passage, and correspondence. From this perspective, the exhibition is not limited to displaying objects; it proposes a space for thinking of matter as a common language, capable of weaving connections between territories and sensibilities. In that confluence, material becomes thought, and dialogue takes form.

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