Luis Adelantado presents El pie del bosque, the fourth solo exhibition by the duo Lamarche-Ovize at the gallery, whose practice is situated in a territory of a20> friction productive between drawing, ceramics and installation. Far from a hierarchy of disciplines, his work is a34> articulated as a system of narratives in which the material and the symbolic are intertwined: forms, figures and objects function as nodes of narrative that activate shared imaginaries and question a55> the boundaries between art and craftsmanship, between the everyday and the mythical.
The project brings together drawings, paintings, silkscreen prints, and sculptural pieces conceived as fragments of an open narrative. In them, the artists deploy a formal vocabulary that combines graphic precision and attention to manual processes, emphasizing the temporal dimension of making. Drawing operates as a structure for thought and organization of the narrative, while ceramics and sculpture introduce volume, weight, and the physical presence of the images. The installation thus articulates a space for reading in which the viewer is invited to recompose links, rhythms, and sequences. The narrative does not appear as illustration, but as method: a way of thinking through things.
The forest proposed by El pie del bosque is not a naturalistic landscape, but rather a symbolic and proliferating territory. Plant motifs, animals and hybrid forms accumulate, repeat and transform, evoking both historical bestiaries and decorative repertoires and a contemporary sensibility attentive to the relationships between the living, the ornamental and the narrative. The sculptures—between the functional and the fantastic, between the domestic object and the imaginary figure—reinforce this ambiguity, introducing bodies that seem to emerge from the same graphic substrate as the works on paper.
The exhibition thus offers an experience of slow and attentive observation, in which each work functions as a point of support—as a “foothold”—for a larger narrative. It is a project that understands drawing, ceramics, and sculpture not only as techniques, but as modes of relationship between images, materials, and ways of imagining the world.