FROM THE VERTIGO
Room. Syntax
20 febrero – 11 abril de 2026
To be in order to inhabit. In Room. Syntax the artists propose various actions, inviting us to approach and look closely or to look into the distance that evokes the inner, reflective and symbolic world.
“Believe in order to see,” writes Cervantes, “thinking that whoever believes in nothing, even looking, achieves nothing.”
The Room is filled with gestures and silences that go beyond material patterns, where the dreamlike plays a transcendent role that breaks with the syntax of the narrative.
The works inhabit the space; they are not merely present, they fill and occupy it. Looking at them allows us to read their expression and understand the text. Opening our eyes and doors, capturing the light, the essence of what is displayed, that fleeting instant that animates art, a time still yet dynamic, tense yet poetic, the point and counterpoint of emotion.
The Room comes to life, things happen, stories are told that suggest a latent world, in which an indefinite time weaves with warm materials a hidden reality that is revealed when contemplating the works; the story is mysterious and its syntax ambiguous.
What is seen, what is imagined, matter, reality, everything is diffuse but concrete, the key that opens and closes the Room in which art dwells.
In Iris Sanmartín's works, emptiness becomes a pause and a suspended nostalgia; an expanded time where something seems about to happen. Elene Melikidze introduces a disquieting vibration, the sensation of invisible forces that inhabit the silence and gaze back at the viewer. In contrast to this tension, Rita Paisana proposes a luminous refuge, a vibrant calm where light and matter construct a subtle intimacy.
Lisa Braid situates the Room in an almost imperceptible pause, the space between two words, where stillness and movement coexist. Natalia Gil's textiles shift the Room toward an open emotional horizon, where anxiety and desire coexist and time is felt as memory or promise. With Antonia Nannt, the structure ceases to be understood solely as form and becomes a malleable space, where experience matters more than use.
If until now the Room was a place of pause and stillness, with Walter Yu it becomes a form of representation. His images seem like frames from a larger story, charged with atmosphere and a tension that never quite resolves.
As a material and symbolic key, Erik Merisalu presents a key, an everyday object that, within the Room, becomes a sign of opening and closing.
Each artist transforms the Room in their own way. Their works don't define it: they expand it, stretch it, make it permeable. The Room is no longer just a place, but an experience that unfolds between what we see and what we imagine.
Texts developed from the reflections of the artists themselves.
Participating artists
En From the vertigoPainting, jewelry, and ceramics intertwine to explore the instant when something transforms and appears.
Rita Paisana It opens with paintings where the wound becomes color and the body, landscape. Beside them, the jewels of Gabriella Goldsmith They materialize the subconscious: imagined fragments and organs that turn vulnerability into strength.
Natsumi Kaihara y Soyoung Hyun They make matter breathe. In their hands, metal heals and porcelain breathes: forms that seem alive, suspended between the useful and the poetic.
Ivana Poliakova, Karoline Healy y Carlos Borau They work from memory and transformation. Poliakova reinterprets ceramic tradition as an act of closeness and resistance; Healy introduces a contemporary alchemy, where metals extracted by plants reveal the connection between the living and the mineral; Borau leaves the mark of gesture on silver, celebrating imperfection as a form of beauty.
La Deke y Jasper Nollet They transfer the vertigo to space: she paints walls that preserve the urban pulse, he models ceramics that seem like remains of an imagined civilization.
In the jewelry of Erik Merisalu, matter becomes organic and unsettling, as if something latent inhabited its surface; in the works of Hyein KimMyths and symbols are translated into painting and sculpture, between story and dream.
Each artist, through their own language, embodies that moment of transition where form is still being born.
Together they draw a map of vertigo: a shared territory of searching and transformation.
Thanks to everyone who joined in the excitement: artists, collaborators, and the public.
February 20 – April 11, 2026
martes – sábado, 11:00 a 15:00 y 16:00 a 20:00
BRISPA Gallery, Calle de San Hermenegildo 13, 28015, Madrid