After the Gallop series, 2026

After the Gallop explores the traces of action, focusing on what remains when movement has already passed and only its imprint persists. The series does not depict the gallop itself, but the body after exertion: the memory of the gesture, the altered breathing, and the exhaustion sedimented into matter.

The horses, made with a gestural and expressive manner, appear as vulnerable, blurred bodies, recalling the primitive language of cave paintings and early forms of symbolic representation. Rather than illustrating speed or mastery, they evoke a raw, instinctive relationship between body, movement, and trace.

The series is rooted in a pictorial practice based on organic materials and shows a clear evolution towards the use of natural pigments sourced from the local territory and produced through artisanal processes. Painting is conceived as a dialogue between body and matter, in which materials shape the gesture and actively participate in the construction of the image. The work thus becomes a living organism, subject to change, embracing slow temporality and a situated presence.

The project aligns with an interest in experimentation and in materializing critical artistic processes. It does not approach painting as a finished product, but as an open field of research in which gesture, matter, and temporality are continuously negotiated.

The use of artisanal custom binders and organic pigments situates the work within a practice grounded in materials and processes, where the artwork emerges through experimentation rather than control. After the Gallop questions the status of painting as a stable, marketable object, proposing instead a living, temporal form that remains open to transformation.