Newsletter at Galería Fran Reus

Artists: Marian Garrido, Irati Inoriza, Abel Jaramillo, Miquel Ponce

Exhibition title: Newsletter

Venue: Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca, Spain

Date: November 11, 2022 – January 23, 2023

Photography: Grimalt de Blanch / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca

The presented project is understood as a continuation of one of the most representative concepts of Fran Reus gallery, Panorama open call, a symbol of our space as a platform which promotes and encourages research, work and dissemination of emerging proposals. For this occasion, we present a project consisting of the work of Irati Inoriza, Abel Jaramillo, Marian Garrido and Miquel Ponce.

It is intended to show its importance and subsequent operation thanks to the inclusion of represented artists introduced through the call. The selection of participating artists responds to the correspondence between their current careers and the stages of the gallery’s long-term work. In this sense, the first step is the discovery and positioning of young artists through representation, as is the case of Miquel Ponce and Irati Inoriza, the latest additions to the list of represented artists. In the case of Abel Jaramillo, we are in the process of consolidation, making his way in the national and international artistic context while Marian Garrido, artist represented since 2017, is the example of a consolidated artist within the national and international artistic circuit with an extensive career and present in public and private collections and institutional projects.

Miquel Ponce is the youngest artist, born in Valencia in 1997. His work is based on conceiving painting as a residue, as a mark, a sign, so that in it we find evidence of its deterioration and manipulation. Factors such as fate and time are present in his work, which reflects on the production of images and on the crisis of visuality, seeking new paths for pictorial production.

Irati Inoriza (Balmaseda, 1992). Her work is situated in a field between the visual essay and the construction of artistic ecosystems. Through the relations of the context, taking a position, she polemicizes on accommodated notions of the construction of the individual and her identity, both individual and collective, in a technological society in constant change.

Abel Jaramillo (Medina de las Torres, Badajoz, 1993). He develops his work through the search for strategies that alter or subvert the usual logic of understanding different contexts. He is interested in the history cracks, the stories on the margins, how discourses are produced and constructed and the political tensions that are projected in everyday life.

Marian Garrido (Avilés, 1984). Her work explores the links between magic and science. She strives to recover lost knowledge and works with the symbolic dimensions of stories constructed through historical collapse and its contingency by means of several converging narrative threads, as well as with the relationship between technology/tool and how it modifies culture through aesthetic wear and tear.