Born in 1995 in Sevilla, Spain. Lives and works between Paris, France and Barcelona, Spain.
An overturned chair, an ornamental imprint in the foam, a bottle’s contents still spilling onto the table. In Eladio Aguilera’s works, something has always just occurred. Barely missed, the protagonists seem to have deserted the scene, leaving behind the traces of a fragmented narrative. On the stage of this actorless theater, the visitor becomes a witness – and sometimes an heir – to a story still being written. Narratives unfold through space, shared, social, and shaped by those who inhabit it.
Within a scenography of absence, clues to what has been and what might be immerse the observers in a sensory experience wherein every anomaly recounts what is happening out of sight. Objects carry the memory of their use; mishaps and minor accidents evoke familiar gestures, suggesting relationships and suspended interactions.
Eladio Aguilera thus embraces an aesthetic of the “after,” filled with nostalgic nods, which do not glorify a bygone past but contribute to the survivance of forms. Fallen leaves, dried flowers, and yellowed papers are part of a continuum, a cyclical pattern in which each reference is a reactivation, a reconfiguration. They are cultural fragments, social phenomena that each era refuses to let fade away.
From installation to curation, Eladio Aguilera conceives space as a material that is anything but static – one shaped collectively by each viewer, with every new rendering. His scenes remain open, ready to be reenacted and displaced by those who pass through them and, inevitably, rewrite them.
Written by Juliette Gaufreteau.
Following in the footsteps of ‘L'esprit des formes’ Eladio Aguilera presents works and ongoing research that explore the relationships between nature, architecture, and painting. His interest lies in the ornamental motifs that inhabit our spaces, both domestic and sacred: plant and floral patterns, found particularly in furniture, possess an ambivalent status, existing as images, symbolic representations, and structural elements all at once.
An ode to the flowers, leaves, stems, and trunks that find their way into our interiors, ‘Tilting towards the sun’ also examines the processes through which architecture takes shape around natural light. The quest for natural light—and its ability to bring warmth and enhance colors—shapes the organization of spaces. Painting and architecture share this undeniable dependence on light: fabrics, curtains, and drapes feature in both disciplines as common elements that filter, diffuse, conceal, or direct light, while regulating and shaping the viewer’s gaze.
190 Bd Gustave Flaubert, Clermont-Ferrand
from 6:30pm