I Did Not See the Tree, I Saw Its Memory in Clay

 

"Photography observes relationships; painting constructs them."

 

Justo Abascal's recent artistic trajectory has its roots in photography, where observation and the construction of spatial relationships form the core of the visual experience. His move into painting does not represent a rupture, but rather an expansion of these same inquiries.

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The works brought together in this exhibition emerge from a deliberate reduction of visual language. Geometric forms, fields of color, and lines of tension replace narrative references, focusing attention on the relationships between the elements that compose the image.

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These paintings construct systems of relationships in which balance, displacement, and transformation remain in constant negotiation. Forms appear to detach themselves from the picture plane, becoming virtual constructions that generate an ambiguous perception between painting, object, and architecture.

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Rather than representing forms, these works create conditions for seeing. The viewer encounters visual systems in which the tension between balance and instability, surface and depth, image and object, remains unresolved.

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From photography to painting, the question remains the same: How can space be organized to produce an experience of seeing?
 

July 2026