DIANA DE SOLARES_

_PAULO WHITAKER

LUIS GONZÁLEZ PALMA_

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The idea might have sounded far-fetched—it was a risk, and like any risk, a stimulating challenge. It was about bringing together in one exhibition three perspectives based solely on the friendship that unites them. That is, proposing a show that does not revolve around a particular theme, but rather around the friendship, affection, and respect that three friends share.

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We have known each other for many years; we have shared many personal and professional experiences, but there is also a deep admiration among us. We value the work we have created over time as well as the way we have chosen to live our lives.

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Seen with a touch of irony, the exhibition is a blind date—an inherently playful act. Although each of us knows the trajectory of the others, none of us knows what the others will exhibit. Nor are we interested in knowing; we have barely spoken about it, and the only thing that matters to us is the idea of play—that is, creative freedom: recovering a childhood dream and inventing a kind of youth in which we discover ourselves while discovering the other, letting ourselves be carried along by the course of a river we do not yet know. We simply wish to be whirlpools within that flow, to soak ourselves in what makes life an adventure, and to embrace the possibility that what is valuable in this experience is the act of moving through spaces that will transform us in some way.

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Each of us has chosen the direction we will take in facing this challenge—what elements we will play with, what stumbles we will encounter, what surprises await. In this game there are no expectations, no winners or losers, but like every game it has a single rule: do not show something that is expected of us—in other words, create what we are missing. In short, the richness contained in this exhibition is the possibility of being astonished. Astonishment at how we confront our own creative uncertainty, and astonishment at the invisible connections that nourish friendship, regardless of time or distance.

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Luis González Palma
September 2025