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Solid Waves by Trinidad Contreras at Hannah Gallery

Exhibition  /  20 May 2026  -  19 Jun 2026
Published: 23.04.2026

Intro
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 stoneware and porcelain, the works incorporate glazes, gold and mother-of-pearl lustres.

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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 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.

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.

As the artist suggests, 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.