Room 8

Sanlúcar de Barrameda, painted by Carmen Laffón between 1976 and 1977, is a view of the city in which the artist spent long periods of time. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to speak of “atmosphere” in it, where all the elements seem to be interconnected by the quintessential ether that penetrates the porous nature of all beings. View and subject matter seem to be integrated: in the painting, time has become as solid as the clouds and the walls as light as the wind.

Impasse, 2013, by Jorge Yeregui, consists, based on a videographic record, of a similar idea, but from a radically different position (and composition). A fixed foreground, illustrating the back of a semi-ruined billboard, serves as a frame in which the life of the harsh urban outskirts unfolds.