VENTANA PROJECT - MAY UPDATE

Before the spear, before the weapon, there was the vessel. In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin proposes that the first great human technology was not a tool of conquest but a container - something designed to hold, preserve, and carry what made life possible.

Cosas que guardan cosas takes that idea as its point of departure. Twelve artists working across ceramics, sculpture, and material practice gather around the vessel as a form: ancient, persistent, and still open. The works move between the functional and the symbolic, between object and image, between what a thing is and what it carries.

The show also thinks through the plinth. The supports that hold the works are not neutral devices - they are conceived as extensions of the pieces themselves, part of the same logic of preservation and presence.

Artists: Abie Franklin, Brenda Ranieri, Cristina Mejias, Eloy Arribas, Gamze Yalçın and Roberto Rivadeneira, Javier Carro Temboury, Maria Rojas, Nikolas Iturralde, Pablo del Pozo, Rosa Aguilar, Sandra Mar, Sandra Val.

Curated by Eladio Aguilera and Aquiles Jarrin.

Daniel spent three weeks in April at Doble Erre, developing a new set of sculptures and material research across the space. On April 18th, we opened the studio to everyone.

The room filled up. People came to see the work in progress - a new inflatable installed in the patio, and a set of new sculptures inside the gallery. It was exactly what a residency open studio should be: unfinished, alive, and worth the visit.

This is the fourth time we work with Daniel, and each time the relationship grows. We are glad to have kicked off the residency programme with a close collaborator and good friend.

The Doble Erre residency programme continues this summer. More artists, more time, more work.

For the opening weekend, our friend Antonio, who runs at Oddy Flowers set up a flower shop in the patio / kitchen. It was exactly the kind of thing we want Doble Erre to be - a space where different practices meet without forcing it. The flowers sold out. The conversations were good. We are already talking about doing it again.

Ventana Project started as an art space. It is becoming something broader - a project built around objects, ceramics, experimental curatorial thinking, and the belief that how you present things matters as much as what you present.

Cosas que guardan cosas is a good example of that. So is the collaboration with Oddy Flowers. So is the residency programme and the work we are doing at Doble Erre between shows.

We are building slowly, and on purpose.

View the catalogue: www.ventanaproject.com/available-works

That's April and May. We are glad you are here.

— Ventana Project