On Saturday, October 5, 2024, LABS Contemporary Art is pleased to present Tra Loro (Between Them), a two-person exhibition by Spanish artists Elvira Amor and Julia Huete, curated by Cecilia Canziani. The project features a selection of new, site-specific works.

 

The exhibition stems from a meeting and an intuition, almost a bold gamble, between the work of two artists: Elvira Amor and Julia Huete. Two voices that, while sharing a focus on abstraction, engage in a dialogue through distinct artistic languages. Julia Huete's work stands out for its ability to question the space of painting. Her approach is often conceptual and reflective, exploring painting through other media. Elvira Amor, on the other hand, explores painting in a more instinctive manner, with a fusion of gesture and color that emerges in both her canvases and her sculptural interventions. Her brushstroke is pure visual joy, expressed with strength and freedom. Both artists share an approach to painting that extends beyond the canvas, incorporating the environment and sculpture. However, their practices remain distinct: Huete explores simple, repetitive forms, diaphanous like flowers or droplets, while Amor works with painting in a more fluid way, expanding until it spills beyond the canvas' boundaries. In this exhibition, the gallery becomes a fluid space. Elvira Amor creates a mural painting that combines gesture and mark-making, accompanied by a metal sculpture that breaks the frontal plane, suggesting new points of view. Julia Huete, on the other hand, presents a large canvas with stitched forms that gain volume and interact with the surrounding space. These interventions, monumental yet portable, reconfigurable and flexible, reflect the impermanence and joy of creation, common characteristics shared by the two artists and central to the exhibition.

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​The exhibition runs until November 16, 2024.