The exhibition that Juan López presents at the Juan Silió Gallery is a project that takes the city as an archaeological environment. He builds different installation elements that start from the capture of negatives of different surfaces of the urban environment. Based on the language of the city itself, a new system of signs is formed with which he works, in relation to his previous work in which the analysis of the architectural elements, the study of their image as text and symbol, is a constant.

Surface surveying, a work process that seeks to identify new contemporary sites, focuses on the surface layer of the ground, to extract information about the most recent activity. The capture of these negatives allows elements found in the crust of the city to be revealed: all kinds of marks, signs and constructions are recovered. These codes are transferred to new skins, converting small accidents and erosions caused by the passage of time (sinkholes, scrapes...) as well as various graphic elements (horizontal road signs, sgraffito marks, etc.) into the counterform of the city.

By translating these negatives into a new materiality, Juan López constructs an environment in which a certain familiarity is sensed, although our brain, which still has to learn to distinguish the new phonemes, has the sensation of entering an inhospitable, unknown space, which nevertheless offers us shelter.