Presented at SWAB Barcelona 2025, this collaborative exhibition by SC Gallery brings together the works of Julia Santa Olalla and Pablo Merchante. The showcase challenges traditional boundaries between subject and object through a unique dialogue of figuration and abstraction. Visitors can explore how everyday, familiar items are activated as meaningful participants in memory, emotion, and contemporary life.
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SC Gallery presents a duo exhibition featuring new works by painters Julia Santa Olalla and Pablo Merchante at the 2025 edition of SWAB Barcelona. The showcase explores the silent poetics of everyday objects, challenging traditional boundaries between subject and object through a narrative of figuration and abstraction.
For its participation in SWAB Barcelona 2025, SC Gallery highlights the artistic dialogue between Julia Santa Olalla and Pablo Merchante. Both artists have developed significant international careers, and this presentation brings together their most recent efforts to examine the way humans relate to the material world. By focusing on the 'conundrum of the everyday,' the artists seek to move beyond the binary classification of objects as either inert or symbolic, instead treating common items as active participants in life, memory, and emotion. The works presented dissolve the hierarchy between subject and object, where pictorial motifs such as a simple vase or a ceramic figure hold as much significance as human forms. The curation emphasizes a shared intuitive logic where figuration is constantly mediated by abstract and intangible elements. As noted in the accompanying curatorial text by Andrea Hernández Sanz, the exhibition captures a 'deliberate pause upon the familiar,' revealing the energy of the insignificant and activating the inanimate through a deeply human, poetic lens.
The exhibition takes place at the Textile Pavilion of Fira de Barcelona as part of the SWAB Barcelona art fair. For further details on access and fair admission, visitors are directed to the official SWAB website at https://swab.es/es/.
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