Carlotta M. Valentinis Queraltó

Artist Residency — GlogauAIR
January – March 2026, Berlin

During her residency at GlogauAIR in Berlin, the artist experienced an important moment of transition within her artistic trajectory. At the beginning of the residency she initiated the series After the Gallop, a group of paintings exploring the memory of movement and the energy that lingers after an action — like the invisible trace a horse leaves behind after a gallop.

Marked by expansive and physical gestures, these works emerge from a way of painting closely connected to the body and to movement, where gesture becomes a way of recording time, rhythm, and energy.

From this point onward, and influenced by her performative practice, where the body comes into direct contact with paint and canvas, her work gradually evolved into a deeper investigation of materials and their origins. Her practice progressively shifted toward a more conscious and situated approach to painting, exploring natural pigments, organic binders, and self-developed production processes.

This path also led her toward stone carving and the exploration of local geology, where she discovered that the fragments and residues produced during the sculpting process could themselves become new pictorial materials.

By collecting these mineral fragments and transforming them into pigments, she developed a new series of paintings created entirely with natural materials. Moving between Barcelona and Berlin, these works reflect the chromatic and geological differences between the two territories. The paintings become a form of material cartography of the landscape, where color originates directly from the land itself and painting becomes a way of reconnecting body, territory, and matter.