BAT Alberto Cornejo Gallery presents a new edition of its program Diálogos, an ongoing series since 2016. In this nineteenth installment, it features the exhibition Stopping the Gaze with works by Borja Barrajón and Teresa Carneiro. The visual dialogue moves between the figurative and the abstract, while geometry acts as a guiding thread capable of generating atmospheres and evoking emotions.
With special attention to detail, Borja Barrajón explores in his sculptures the relationship between geometry and formal aesthetics. Each piece proposes a sensory experience guided by the object and the light. Through precise compositions, the works encourage reflection on the order of elements, the importance of emptiness, and the meaning of presence. At the same time, the constructive challenges of each sculpture activate sensations and foster a direct dialogue with the observer.
On the other hand, Teresa Carneiro explores in her works the instant when the image emerges from darkness, evoking the first gesture of cinema and turning this transition into a metaphor for consciousness. Her female figures, reminiscent of characters from a silent film, inhabit subtle, geometric backgrounds that function as mental stages—a kind of emotional architecture where they float between clarity and disappearance. Each painting is presented like a frame, with contained gestures and exchanged glances suggesting memory and doubling, dissolving time and blurring the boundaries between past and present, self and other.
Together, the works of Borja Barrajón and Teresa Carneiro invite the viewer to pause and observe. Sculpture and painting come together in a space where form, light, and geometry generate sensations that extend the experience beyond the moment.
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