For ARCO 2022, Bombon is very happy to present a project by Joana Escoval, Enric Farrés and Bernat Daviu.

A project that is articulated around an installation that evokes a Waiting Room, an invitation to slow down, to stop, sit down and observe a selection of works that, without waiting, would be imperceptible. A selection of works that emphasize the changing and the mutable, in slight gestures, barely hinted at in the field of vision, at the limit of the visible; apparently inconsequential elements, imperceptible or foreign to the work of art but that are imposed precisely by their lightness and define the works of these artists. It is a tribute to the performativity of the works, to their capacity and sensitivity to generate discourse without making much noise.

Enric Farrés (1983 Palafrugell) is an artist whose works develop stories in which reality and fiction merge and mingle with each other. His interest lies in exploring the limits of the structures that build reality. For ARCO we have selected a series of works in which what is not there establishes the narrative of the work. Farrés uses unknowns such as the hole in the frame where the signature would be seen, the empty space in the center of the passe-partout or the myopic eyes of an artist trying to paint a landscape as points of departure and commitment to establish and develop a relationship with the potential viewer or collector of the work. Works that trigger situations from which the discourse expands. His interest lies in exploring the limits of the structures that build reality.

This game with the viewer is also key in the works of Bernat Daviu (1985 Fonteta). Daviu is interested in how the phenomena that happen outside or around the work of art define, to a large extent, the experience of the work. This is evident in the paintings of the booth. They are generally monochromatic works that collect shadows of unforeseen elements that usually accompany his (and other) paintings. From indoor plants to cats, flies or the passionate hand of a gallery owner or collector, they interfere and, at the same time, leave an image on the pristine surface of the painting. Daviu is interested in the fact that all these everyday elements, such as the flies in his studio or the collector’s cat that in a momento of rage decides to pounce on the painting with its nails, enter into a dialogue with the Monochrome, a milestone in the history of modern painting. By Daviu are the benches of chairs that will be placed in the middle of the stand and that propose a specific action to the viewer: sit, wait and observe.