Fuentesal Arenillas

Julia Fuentesal and Pablo M. Arenillas explore in their work the playful dimension of artistic practice as a production of signs. In this sense, their pieces interweave autobiographical aspects with formal resources such as the double figure and repetition, including chance as an essential component of what is at stake.
Their pieces function as tools that allow them to experiment with different ways of inhabiting the body, becoming a manifesto of their way of living and thinking, expressed in organic forms that come to life through the transformation of poor materials, which they rescue from trades linked to their origins. At the same time, his work extends beyond corporeality to shed the burden linked to the notion of historical heritage, becoming instruments capable of telling stories in an itinerant way, thanks to their light, deployable and portable character. However, they always carry with them the unmistakable heritage of Andalusian sculpture.
Among their latest solo exhibitions are La Danza Mudanza, curated by Bea Espejo at the CAAC in Seville, Cubierta brillante/ margen delgado, curated by Juan Canela and produced with the support of the Programa de Producción Artística Comunidad de Madrid – DKV at the Sala de Arte Joven, Un acto de balanceo at NORDÉS gallery, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia and Casapuerta, occupying the 4 main floors of Galería Luis Adelantado. They have also participated in different collective exhibitions such as Turno de réplica. Construcción/ Composición at the Museo Patio Herreriano, La vista y el tacto (ca. 1929-30) at the Centro Federico García Lorca or Una grieta en la montaña at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo.
They have been selected for the Royal Academy of Spain Scholarship in Rome 2022-2023, their work has won the Generaciones 2023 call at La Casa Encendida Madrid, they have participated in the María José Jove Foundation Artistic Residency 2022, and have been selected for the VI Cervezas Alhambra Emerging Art Prize ARCO (2022). They have also been awarded by the Iniciarte space programme in Seville (2015) and the Blueproject Foundation (2018) with a residency that concluded with the exhibition GameShow/PlayShow.