Solid Waves by Trinidad Contreras at Hannah Gallery
Exhibition
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20 May 2026
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03 Jul 2026
Published: 15.06.2026
Hannah Gallery
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- Amador Bertomeu, Leo Caballero

Hannah Gallery presents Solid Waves, the first exhibition of Trinidad Contreras as part of the gallery’s roster of artists. With this incorporation, the gallery brings in a practice that moves between jewellery, object and sculpture, where ceramics become a field of investigation into matter, time and memory. The exhibition will take place from May 20 to June 19, 2026, with an opening on May 20 at 19:00. Solid Waves brings together a group of fifteen pieces: five objects, five brooches and five rings. Mainly made in porcelain and stoneware, the works incorporate glazes, gold and lustres.
Artist list
Trinidad Contreras
Solid Waves proposes an apparent paradox: the solid form as a record of movement. In Trinidad Contreras’ work, matter does not present itself as stability, but as process. Her pieces seem to freeze a moment of transformation, as if the surface had been shaped by a continuous, slow, almost geological force. What we see is not a fixed volume, but the trace of an action, of a pressure, of a time that has settled into matter. As the artist suggests, “the focus is not the represented object, but the trace it leaves behind”, and how “what is no longer there can acquire a physical and tangible presence.”
As in eroded reliefs or mineral structures, forms emerge from within. They are not constructed, but appear. In this sense, her work engages with a tradition in which matter becomes both record and surface of memory, from the organic forms of Jean Arp to the time-laden surfaces of Antoni Tàpies, or the conception of void as an active space in Lucio Fontana.
Ceramics here function as “a seismograph of the ephemeral”, capable of capturing the energy of movement and fixing it into matter. The surfaces evoke waves, erosion, or internal pressures, yet do not represent them literally, but retain their intensity. In this process, the transient becomes permanent, as if the pieces were “fossils of an imagined civilization.”
Her pieces operate across different scales while maintaining a consistent logic: they are fragments of a larger system, as if each object were part of an expanding landscape. Openings, voids and internal tensions introduce a relational dimension, where the body does not simply wear the object, but enters into dialogue with it. In some cases, the forms seem to have been inhabited, revealing interior spaces that do not contain, but remember, turning absence into an active, memory-laden presence.
Across this “organic chaos”, subtle interventions appear, small points of gold that function as “cartographies of human order.” Marks of an attempt to measure, trace and understand, generating a constant tension between the wild and the structured. As the artist notes, her work is structured around processes of transformation and the ways in which matter can retain memory. In this sense, each piece is both structure and event, a form that contains the movement that generated it.
Solid Waves thus becomes an exploration of the limits between stability and change, between surface and depth. A territory where the solid is never final, but a pause within a continuous flow, a place where absence becomes presence and where time, ultimately, comes to live within matter.
Quotations in this text are drawn from Trinidad Contreras’ statement for Solid Waves.
As in eroded reliefs or mineral structures, forms emerge from within. They are not constructed, but appear. In this sense, her work engages with a tradition in which matter becomes both record and surface of memory, from the organic forms of Jean Arp to the time-laden surfaces of Antoni Tàpies, or the conception of void as an active space in Lucio Fontana.
Ceramics here function as “a seismograph of the ephemeral”, capable of capturing the energy of movement and fixing it into matter. The surfaces evoke waves, erosion, or internal pressures, yet do not represent them literally, but retain their intensity. In this process, the transient becomes permanent, as if the pieces were “fossils of an imagined civilization.”
Her pieces operate across different scales while maintaining a consistent logic: they are fragments of a larger system, as if each object were part of an expanding landscape. Openings, voids and internal tensions introduce a relational dimension, where the body does not simply wear the object, but enters into dialogue with it. In some cases, the forms seem to have been inhabited, revealing interior spaces that do not contain, but remember, turning absence into an active, memory-laden presence.
Across this “organic chaos”, subtle interventions appear, small points of gold that function as “cartographies of human order.” Marks of an attempt to measure, trace and understand, generating a constant tension between the wild and the structured. As the artist notes, her work is structured around processes of transformation and the ways in which matter can retain memory. In this sense, each piece is both structure and event, a form that contains the movement that generated it.
Solid Waves thus becomes an exploration of the limits between stability and change, between surface and depth. A territory where the solid is never final, but a pause within a continuous flow, a place where absence becomes presence and where time, ultimately, comes to live within matter.
Quotations in this text are drawn from Trinidad Contreras’ statement for Solid Waves.
Hannah Gallery
- Mail:
- hannahgallery
klimt02.net
- Phone:
- + 34 933687235
- Management:
- Amador Bertomeu, Leo Caballero
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