Welcome to the first CACO gathering. Here, artistic territories of experimentation and sensorial and emotional reflection converge, where color operates not as an aesthetic component, but as an agent of personal and collective recognition.

Between color and the self proposes a journey toward color's capacity to reveal ourselves, penetrating within us like an inner pulse, a companion and refuge that finds its language in beauty. Color here doesn't illustrate or decorate: it challenges us. Each visitor is invited to recognize themselves in the sensitive, the fragmentary, and the intuitive. Because in color, we can find what words often fail to achieve: a way of affirming ourselves, of existing, and of recognizing ourselves.

This exhibition is, above all, an opening to companionship. It allows color to feel us, think of us, and envelop us in the possibility of perceiving ourselves in a dialogue of coexistence, between color and self.

Curated by Romina Llaguno

Artists:

David Magán, Sandra Val, Pedro Mendes, Amanda Gatti, Lúa Gándara, Javier Mosquera

Movie:

The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo - Javier Polo

David Magán

200 x 60 x 60 cm Methacrylate on a raised base. Unique piece.

David Magán (1979, Madrid) is a prominent visual artist in the fields of sculpture and installation. His work explores the possibilities and complexity of perception and materiality between light, color, and space.

"T2/200. v05" is part of Sculpture Forest , a set of large-scale pieces developed for Galería Canalejas in Madrid at the request of art consultants The Partners. Through each piece, David Magán draws the viewer into a continuous experiential process. The modular format not only acts as a structure; it also suggests a language with which to understand art and the world, as a constant system of relationship and transformation.

David Magán’s works have been exhibited at prestigious art fairs such as ARCOmadrid (Madrid, Spain), Art Cologne (Cologne, Germany), Pinta Miami (Miami, USA), Art Toronto (Toronto, Canada), ArtLima (Lima, Peru) and Zona MACO (Mexico City, Mexico), and are part of important collections such as the Ritter Museum (Waldenbuch, Germany), the Tomás y Valiente Art Center (Fuenlabrada, Spain), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid (Madrid, Spain), the National Glass Center Foundation (Segovia, Spain) and the Murano Glass Museum (Venice, Italy).

David currently heads the studio alongside Kiko Magán, the technical engineer in charge of the development that makes the projects possible.

Pedro Mendes and Amanda Gatti

Inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's iconic feminist horror story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), the experimental short pays homage to the early period of cinematic history through a vignette-like structure and uses dreamlike imagery to explore themes of gender and mental health.

Original title (Portuguese): Amarelo Cárcere
English title: Yellow Cage
Completion Date: June 2020

Screenplay: Amanda Gatti, Pedro Mendes
Directed by: Pedro Mendes
Performance: Amanda Gatti
Photography direction: Amanda Gatti, Pedro Mendes

Art direction: Amanda Gatti, Pedro Mendes
Costume design: Amanda Gatti
Production: Amanda Gatti
Editing and color correction: Pedro Mendes
Original music: Daniel Soares Oliveira
Sound engineer: Bernardo Frota
Sound design and mixing: Convulsion Epics
Graphic design: Louise Kanefuku

Pedro Mendes (1995, Brazil) is a visual artist and researcher based in Madrid. He works between experimental film, video, and photography, exploring interdisciplinary practices that involve the creation and repurposing of still and moving images—from audiovisual archives and home movies to materials generated by artificial intelligence—to investigate the possibilities of autofiction and self-abstraction. He is a PhD candidate in Advanced Studies in
Artistic Productions at the University of Barcelona, ​​where she is developing a theoretical and practical research project. She holds a Master's degree in Filmmaking from the University of Warwick/London Film School (United Kingdom, 2023) and a Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Production from the School of Communication, Arts and Design at PUCRS (Brazil, 2017).

www.pedrobmendes.com

Amanda Gatti (1996, Brazil) is an artist and researcher who works primarily with performance, video, photography, and installation, seeking to understand the body as a mediator in these disciplines. Her work investigates how we occupy and are occupied by the spaces that surround us. She holds a Master's degree in Performance Practice and Visual Culture from the Museo Reina Sofía/UCLM (Spain, 2023) and a Bachelor's degree in Production.
Audiovisual by PUCRS (Brazil, 2018). She has presented her work in exhibitions and festivals in Latin America and Europe, in addition to participating in residencies in Brazil, Spain, and Ireland. In parallel to her artistic production, she develops actions and workshops aimed at creating critical and experimental spaces through
collaborative approaches. Currently lives and works in Spain.

www.amandagatti.com

Sandra Val

Sandra Val (Tarragona, 1979) lives and works in Madrid. A sculptor and painter, her work focuses on the modularity of elements that shape a dreamlike language of play. Her work allows us to let our imaginations run wild, and we can see small, delicate porcelain toys, as well as model-like representations of large towers and buildings, influences that come from Sandra's childhood.

This wall of small sculptures is a composition created especially for the exhibition, and seeks to transform each piece into a museum piece that, when observed in its scattering of light, moves us through its earthy and pastel colors and transports us to the innocence of our childhood.

Sandra Val has been part of the roster of artists at ARCO 2025 with the Espacio Valverde gallery. Her work has been exhibited at the Barjola Museum in Gijón, the CAV La Neomudéjar Museum in Madrid, the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Korea, and various institutions and galleries in Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Peru, the United States, Austria, and Switzerland.

Lúa Gándara

Lúa Gándara (Galicia, 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo. Her playful, humorous work is a testament to the importance of experimentation, deconstruction, and re-creation, from childhood education to adulthood. Her work doesn't follow strict formal parameters; it simply reflects the expressive need to recognize herself in play.

"Now I understand everything" It is an audiovisual piece of self-creation in which Lúa tells us, from her thoughts, her most intimate side, her lack of adaptation to the norm and her experimental processes.

Her work "Barbie Works in Construction" takes us back to the Barbie we never played with, because that role was never represented in our childhood.

Lúa Gándara's work has been selected and exhibited in numerous competitions such as the 15th MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art Naturgy Foundation, the 2016 Artists of Alto Minho and Galicia Award of the Cerveira Biennial Foundation, the 8th Auditorio de Galicia New Artists Award or the 10th International Pintor Laxeiro Biennial, among others. She has been awarded the First Prize "New Portuguese-Galician Talents" at the "IX Eixo Atlántico Painting Biennial Award", the "Xurado Novo" award in the "Contemporary" Section at the 2021 Intersección Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival and the IX Prize in the Artistic Interventions Competition at the Hejduk Towers at the City of Culture of Galicia, among others. She is currently part of the art collective "Poligonal" and works with several galleries in Galicia and Madrid.

Javier Mosquera

Javier Mosquera (Madrid, 1999) is a visual artist and part of the current wave of emerging Spanish art. His work in painting, drawing, and installation is structured around the Third Landscape in a schematic manner, surrendering us to the beauty that materializes thoughts through the pictorial gesture. His work connects the sensibilities of contemporary experiences.

"If I squeeze it, it doesn't part" (2024) and "Aggressive Green" (2024) reflect an unprecedented sensitivity for the representation of contemporary experiences through abstract expression.

Javi Mosquera holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and HFBK Hamburg (2022). He recently opened the solo exhibition El Tercer Paisaje with LAPISLÁZULI Gallery, and has also participated in group exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Florencio de la Fuente (2024), Cuenca; WeCollect Gallery, Madrid (2023); K.os Art Gallery, Madrid (2023), Anfitrión Marbella, Marbella (2024) and Höhschule fur Bildende Künste, Hamburg (2021), among others.