Rigid space
Elba Benítez Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of Alejandro Campins' work, opening on September 8, 2022.
Titled Rigid Space , the exhibition will present the new works of the series Tibet , which takes us into one of the most interesting geographies of the contemporary world: the northern Himalayan plateau, known as the Roof of the World. Using the odyssey of cultural transformation as a conceptual starting point, the paintings attempt to capture not only the natural landscape itself, but also the conflict behind the veil of its beautiful appearance: the impact of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on Tibetan Buddhism. In this habitat, where dualities and accidents are considered non-existent, the architectural ruin acquires great relevance as a synthesis of all conflict and metamorphosis.
For Campins, landscapes are not just physical or imaginary: they are metaphysical spaces that destabilise our empirical and familiar conception and occupation, as they exhibit and question their structures and conditions. They are not a representation of things, but an ontological event, an opening, a revelation of the world.