We present a solo project by the artist Lucía Bayón featuring recently produced works combined with previously unseen pieces stemming from research begun during the Gasworks residency (London, 2024).
Bayón’s practice manifests itself mainly through sculpture, attending to the articulation of compositional and formal processes that migrate from language as a starting point to other forms of presence, considering the relationship between forces, voids and intervals of relational space.
The pieces presented here arise from different exercises of folding, refolding and twisting a plane until it reaches a volume that encloses a void. The previously unseen works explore sculptural exercises in nodal articulation, such as the mathematical principle of the Möbius strip, which turns a plane into a continuum. Flexible continuities that bend, curve and slacken; knots that express ideas of binding, connection and circuit. Torque —a word of Anglo-Saxon etymology, translated into Spanish as ‘esfuerzo de torsión’ (twisting force)— bears on the formal articulation of a choreographic grammar in space that channels exercises of power and tension.
A dividing piece is thus built in the space, which at the same time blocks and directs the passage and gaze of the public. The organic line —the space found between the elements— draws attention to how two dimensions become three; it is topological, as the form of empty space. These voids can be understood as spaces of mediation: it is this nothingness, which otherwise escapes legibility, that invites metaphorical elaboration.
Giving way to the gradual transformation from a context of manual production to the use of
industrial processing techniques —such as the cast bronze pieces— and the insistence on recurring gestures, the practice adopts a sensitivity for entangling the residual in a slow becoming.
Lucía Bayón (Madrid, 1994) has been represented by Belmonte since 2021 and has taken part in four of our exhibitions: two solo shows – ese entredós and Attente – and two group exhibitions – Claro del Bosque and Querida tierra que oscurece. She has also shown recent work at spaces and institutions such as Halfhouse (Barcelona, 2024), Fondation Fiminco (Paris, 2024), La Capella (Barcelona, 2023), Sid Motion Gallery (London, 2023), Centro Botín (Santander, 2022), Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Tenerife, 2022) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2021), among others. CA2M will host her first institutional solo exhibition in 2026.
