Habitación. Sintaxis

Artist list

Lisa Braid, Natalia Gil, Elene Melikidze, Erik Merisalu, Antonia Nannt, Rita Paisana, Iris Sanmartín Dalmau, Walter Yu

To believe in order to see, writes Cervantes, those who believe in nothing, even when looking, see nothing.

The Room fills with gestures and silences that go beyond material frameworks, where the dreamlike plays a transcendent role breaking the syntax of linear narration.
The works inhabit the space, they do not simply exist, they fill it and occupy it, to look at them is to read their expression and encounter the text. To open one’s eyes and doors, to catch the light, the essence of what is shown, that fleeting instant that animates art, a time that is still yet dynamic, tense yet poetic, point and counterpoint of emotion.
The Room comes to life. Things happen, stories unfold that suggest a latent world in which an undefined time weaves, through warm materials, a hidden reality revealed in contemplation. The narrative is
mysterious, its syntax uncertain.
What is seen, what is imagined, matter and reality, everything is diffuse yet tangible, like a key that opens and closes the Room where art resides.

Text by Carlos García


In Iris Sanmartín’s works, emptiness becomes pause and suspended nostalgia; an expanded time in which something seems about to happen. Elene Melikidze introduces an unsettling vibration, the sensation of invisible forces inhabiting silence and returning the viewer’s gaze. In contrast to this tension, Rita Paisana proposes a luminous refuge, a living calm where light and matter construct a subtle intimacy.

Lisa Braid places the Room within an almost imperceptible pause, the one that separates two words, where stillness and movement coexist. Natalia Gil’s textiles shift the Room toward an open emotional horizon, where anxiety and desire meet, and time is felt as memory or promise. With Antonia Nannt, structure ceases to be understood merely as form and becomes a malleable place, where experience matters more than use.

Until now, the Room was paused and static, but with Walter Yu, it becomes representation. His images resemble frames from a larger story, filled with atmosphere and a tension that never fully resolves.
As a material and symbolic gesture, Erik Merisalu presents a key, an everyday object that, within the Room, becomes a sign of opening and closing.
Each artist transforms the Room in their own way. Their works do not define it; they expand it, stretch it, make it permeable. The Room is no longer just a place, but an experience that unfolds between what we see and what we imagine.


Opening Hours: Tuesday - Friday: Saturday: 11:30-14:30 and 16:30-19:30
Saturday: 11:30-14:30