ARCO LISBOA 2025 — Galería Reus | Contemporary Art Galleries in Palma, Mallorca

Galería Reus is a contemporary art gallery based in Mallorca whose trajectory dates back to 2003. Over the years, the project has evolved through different forms of collaboration and programming, consolidating itself as a space dedicated to the research, production, and dissemination of contemporary art.

The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists, supporting the development of their practices while creating a context for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection around the diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression. Its program is characterized by a diversity of languages and approaches, as well as an interest in establishing connections between the local artistic scene and the international context.

From Mallorca, Galería Reus aims to actively contribute to the contemporary cultural ecosystem by promoting projects that encourage exchange, artistic research, and the development of new perspectives.

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ARCO LISBOA - 2025

IRATI INORIZA & ALEJANDRO JAVALOYAS

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29.05.2025 - 01.06.2025

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LA BIBI + REUS’ proposal for ARCO Lisboa 2025, titled Fading Out, brings together the work of Irati Inoriza (Bilbao, 1992) and Alejandro Javaloyas (Palma de Mallorca, 1986).

Irati Inoriza’s work occupies a hybrid space between visual essay and the construction of artistic ecosystems. Through a process-based and relational approach, her work challenges conventional notions of individual and collective identity, questioning its formation within a constantly evolving technological society. In her recent investigations, water and fluids have been fundamental elements, serving as metaphors for permeability, change, and memory. Projects such as the one presented at the 2024 Generación Prize at La Casa Encendida or her current exhibition at Centro Párraga delve into our relationship with the environment, exploring the interconnection between body, landscape, and temporality. In Fading Out, Inoriza also presents a series of greenish-hued mirrors, evoking the vegetation that grows along riverbanks and reinforcing the idea of reflection, distortion, and the transformation of identity.

Meanwhile, Alejandro Javaloyas explores the sphere as a geometric element, symbol, and habitable space, investigating its philosophical, aesthetic, and historical significance within art. Through a meticulous process of material transformation, he reshapes the pictorial surface by turning plywood into convex forms through pressing, cutting, drilling, and polishing. This method alters the flatness of the canvas, generating arcs that evoke segments of incomplete circles. His use of gradients and color reinforces the notion of fading out, as if the pieces had been submerged in water, changing their shape and gradually altering their chromatic properties in a continuous interplay between presence and disappearance. In this sense, the relationship with water in his work is not only evident in the chromatic transformation of his surfaces but also in the fluidity of his forms and the way his structures appear eroded by the passage of time.

Fading Out establishes a dialogue between both practices, where the notion of dissolution—whether of identity, matter, or image—becomes a central theme. The presence of water as both a symbolic and material element creates a connection between their works, linking the dissolution of the image in Inoriza’s mirrors with the pictorial gradients of Javaloyas, in an exploration of memory, identity, and the metamorphosis of the environment.

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