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100 collectors members were among the first through the door for the pre-opening of Silencio, the second exhibition from el Puente, a collective of Latin American artists, hosted in Rocío Asensi's studio in Chueca, Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday, June 23. The space set the tone for a show built around restraint: five artists, one word as resistance, and a deep dive by each artist into their work.
Silencio is curated by Edgar Ariel and Rocío Asensi, who brought together a group spanning painting, textile, photography, and installation, each artist interpreting the title's quiet on their own terms and, in keeping with el Puente's premise, each carrying a different relationship to Latin America and to Spain as the place where that work is now exhibited.
Natalia Auffray works across painting, textile sculpture, and installation, often returning to the language of cloth and thread as a way of processing the personal and the domestic. Her practice carries a clear feminist undercurrent: close, intimate, sometimes unresolved, built from materials that hold memory in their structure. The sculpture mixing cloth and wood is left for interpretation by the audience with a tension between the materials that are both made of fibers.
Sara Corenstein has spent over three decades moving between textile, painting, and intervened photography, shaped early by Mexico City and later by two decades in Oaxaca.
Carola Etche is a photographer and former film producer from Argentina, now based in Spain after many travels. Her work moves through photography, performance, and video to sit with stillness and uncertainty: what happens, as she puts it, when the body stops registering sensation. The work shows 12 stones collected in various regions of Spain with photographic transfers of the artist's silhouette, resulting in a very organic work that represents the artist's journey.
Maikel Sotomayor, trained at Havana's Academia San Alejandro, has built his practice around landscape as inherited memory rather than depiction: Cuban terrain reconstructed from a distance, somewhere between figuration and abstraction, carrying the weight of displacement without illustrating it directly. Always in the square shape, he explores what landscape means in a very personal way.
Rocío Asensi, co-curator and host, is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and sound, with light as her recurring material: sunlight, oil lamp, LED, studied as much for its symbolism as its physics. Her practice sits at the intersection of the personal and the collective: dreams, fears, ritual, the porous line between interior and exterior, public and private. A Fine Arts graduate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a background in art direction for film, she has shown at fairs and festivals from MACO Mexico to Art Fair Köln, and recently completed Paisaje Solar, a commissioned intervention at the Council of Europe in Brussels during Spain's 2023 EU presidency.
The pre-opening carried that same economy of gesture through to the two rooms itself: small, unhurried, the kind of evening where the work did most of the talking along with the artists present. The public inauguration followed the next evening at Calle Almirante 28, with guided visits alongside the artists scheduled for July 3rd, 8th, 16th, and 23rd at 19:00h, open by RSVP.
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