https://erolaarcalis.com Erola Arcalís Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:37:20 +0000 https://erolaarcalis.com en https://erolaarcalis.com/Erola-Arcalis Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:22:02 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/Erola-Arcalis E R O L A A R C A L Í S Erola Arcalís (b. Menorca; lives in London) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses photography and automatic writing.&nbsp; Her work investigates how individual and collective memories are shaped through emotional and historical landscapes.&nbsp;Arcalís makes large-scale silver gelatin handprints, which she uses as canvases for further intervention.Erola Arcalís has exhibited at the Art Museum of the Americas (Washington DC), Casal Solleric (Mallorca) and Hauser &amp; Wirth (Menorca). NEWS October 2026 Passage Artist Residency Programme at the Research Library of Reformation Studies, Wittenberg. <img width="648" height="1152" width_o="648" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f043f78879b83a12805ab9f1337b68b6c458a5bc92b449579bfc7b3109ef9e0/untimely_winter_swallows.gif" data-mid="239196779" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/648/i/7f043f78879b83a12805ab9f1337b68b6c458a5bc92b449579bfc7b3109ef9e0/untimely_winter_swallows.gif" /><img width="2048" height="2560" width_o="2048" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c749c343bb50ba82433e94b06958cb9dfd628041d17df9c2750dcb307e013aa8/260723-passage-post-006_10801440-01-scaled.jpeg" data-mid="252682750" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c749c343bb50ba82433e94b06958cb9dfd628041d17df9c2750dcb307e013aa8/260723-passage-post-006_10801440-01-scaled.jpeg" /> Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public EventsXaloc about https://erolaarcalis.com/RECENT-EXHIBITIONS Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:37:01 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/RECENT-EXHIBITIONS EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events New Works about SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Arcalís has exhibited in the Spanish contemporary art institutions Casal Solleric and Centro Cultural Galieo. She&nbsp;has shown work internationally with Copperfield gallery and Peckham24 (London, UK), and most recently with Hauser &amp; Wirth (Menorca) and&nbsp;OAS Art Museum of the Americas (Washington DC). <img width="3508" height="2339" width_o="3508" height_o="2339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b294332bdcc70e6264ce3353309a7cdd420a20e8045d5bd5b14824b5bda4ff8/ARCAE122597-ARCAE122600-ARCAE122593-ARCAE122595-ARCAE122599-ARCAE122603-ARCAE122604-ARCAE122602-ARCAE122596-ARCAE122601-hires.jpg" data-mid="200365393" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b294332bdcc70e6264ce3353309a7cdd420a20e8045d5bd5b14824b5bda4ff8/ARCAE122597-ARCAE122600-ARCAE122593-ARCAE122595-ARCAE122599-ARCAE122603-ARCAE122604-ARCAE122602-ARCAE122596-ARCAE122601-hires.jpg" /> After the Mediterranean curated by Oriol Fontdevila group show at Hauser &amp; Wirth Menorca April - October 2023 VIEW MORE <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd7117ea04fc4748357d71fadf74e6e5d7f396daef524372557b565ca83bcf5e/31.Derelictes.128_s.jpg" data-mid="200365398" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd7117ea04fc4748357d71fadf74e6e5d7f396daef524372557b565ca83bcf5e/31.Derelictes.128_s.jpg" /> Flotsam (and other utopias)&nbsp;curated by Aina Pomar solo show at Casal Solleric Majorca, May - September 2023 VIEW MORE <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/653c3bb96df1289bebd78cf4369f1b6f734491dc18632447916c2c0a82a28da9/A_Corner_With_Erola_Arcalis_2018_London-2.jpg" data-mid="239151586" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/653c3bb96df1289bebd78cf4369f1b6f734491dc18632447916c2c0a82a28da9/A_Corner_With_Erola_Arcalis_2018_London-2.jpg" /> A Corner With curated by Trine Stephensensolo show at A Corner With project space London, 2018 VIEW MORE Erola Arcalís Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events New Works about https://erolaarcalis.com/Hauser-Wirth-Menorca-Shipwreck-Studies Sun, 24 May 2020 11:18:00 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/Hauser-Wirth-Menorca-Shipwreck-Studies EROLA ARCALÍS Recent exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about Shipwreck Studies at Hauser &amp; Wirth Menorcacurated by Oriol Fontdevila as part of the exhibition After the Mediterranean April - October 2023 <img width="3508" height="2339" width_o="3508" height_o="2339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b294332bdcc70e6264ce3353309a7cdd420a20e8045d5bd5b14824b5bda4ff8/ARCAE122597-ARCAE122600-ARCAE122593-ARCAE122595-ARCAE122599-ARCAE122603-ARCAE122604-ARCAE122602-ARCAE122596-ARCAE122601-hires.jpg" data-mid="201529675" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b294332bdcc70e6264ce3353309a7cdd420a20e8045d5bd5b14824b5bda4ff8/ARCAE122597-ARCAE122600-ARCAE122593-ARCAE122595-ARCAE122599-ARCAE122603-ARCAE122604-ARCAE122602-ARCAE122596-ARCAE122601-hires.jpg" /> Shipwright Francesc Preto built his last boat inland, with the intention of housing a naturist community. Arcalís creates archaeological fictions with the flotsam of her great grandfather’s shipwreck, using the traces of a utopia that is yet to become alive.Oriol Fontdevila, curator Working with the remains of the unrealised utopia became a way of reflecting on my own experience growing up in the Menorcan landscape, in the past and in the present. A territory that - just like my step great-grandad - in the most humbling way, has taught me about caring for that which I consider to be essential: the nexus between emotional and historical memory and the physical landscape, and the tight bond between identity and ecological care. <img width="3508" height="2339" width_o="3508" height_o="2339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b34290b7a165a4b79c709cd14333e08c305ada7645ec962bc7fa517dd2069cb/ARCAE122601-hires.jpg" data-mid="176631094" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b34290b7a165a4b79c709cd14333e08c305ada7645ec962bc7fa517dd2069cb/ARCAE122601-hires.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34f17d8305029629533cd863981f82e5dd523f4cf2f35c5b710acde5ed96c8ee/Erola_Arcalis_La_Mar_Grisa_Shipwreck_Studies_2500px.jpg" data-mid="189076659" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34f17d8305029629533cd863981f82e5dd523f4cf2f35c5b710acde5ed96c8ee/Erola_Arcalis_La_Mar_Grisa_Shipwreck_Studies_2500px.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10fdfa7d79a5a64fe8f40951664c767a1469cbe928076b4305511e20aa223972/Vessel_VII_BB-2500px.jpg" data-mid="72213317" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10fdfa7d79a5a64fe8f40951664c767a1469cbe928076b4305511e20aa223972/Vessel_VII_BB-2500px.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e86922095b4dd606fd8826598b48838c574fcb60a8b4a7f9dfaf8f3dd3e8c2ee/Shipwreck_Arcalis_2000px_02.jpg" data-mid="72213336" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e86922095b4dd606fd8826598b48838c574fcb60a8b4a7f9dfaf8f3dd3e8c2ee/Shipwreck_Arcalis_2000px_02.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03d03c6ce0a1525a73aae2bea5e566512e89f95aa4634699923a79a8fe97584c/Erola_Arcalis_Bodego_amb_cargols_i_cullera_2500px.jpg" data-mid="189076752" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03d03c6ce0a1525a73aae2bea5e566512e89f95aa4634699923a79a8fe97584c/Erola_Arcalis_Bodego_amb_cargols_i_cullera_2500px.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9357482fa4437399c01885bf99fedc7f9f41b004640c8f32d238ee72549679ee/Erola_Arcalis_Winedark_Sea_Shipwreck_Studies_2500px.jpg" data-mid="189076975" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9357482fa4437399c01885bf99fedc7f9f41b004640c8f32d238ee72549679ee/Erola_Arcalis_Winedark_Sea_Shipwreck_Studies_2500px.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06b850280eab911d58ac3811f7bedd87c8f8dc93f0faaf4f16a8d528e22eaf91/Erola_Arcalis_Shipwreck_Studies_Vessel_1_variation_2500px.jpg" data-mid="189076717" border="0" data-scale="41" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06b850280eab911d58ac3811f7bedd87c8f8dc93f0faaf4f16a8d528e22eaf91/Erola_Arcalis_Shipwreck_Studies_Vessel_1_variation_2500px.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bc7865dc316640e38065dff52c05948bd81166f1554f2f59a6b0ce07e557102/Erola_Arcalis_Shipwreck_Studies_Caramuixa_amb_Suports_2500px.jpg" data-mid="189077104" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bc7865dc316640e38065dff52c05948bd81166f1554f2f59a6b0ce07e557102/Erola_Arcalis_Shipwreck_Studies_Caramuixa_amb_Suports_2500px.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2100" width_o="1500" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98aaf23ee3a096e7a59c696acc7d69dd2174dcd715ea7444a22cba1b11baa257/Whale_Womb_Eye_Hull_Erola_Arcalis_Ink_on_Paper_web.jpg" data-mid="176630843" border="0" data-scale="34" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98aaf23ee3a096e7a59c696acc7d69dd2174dcd715ea7444a22cba1b11baa257/Whale_Womb_Eye_Hull_Erola_Arcalis_Ink_on_Paper_web.jpg" /> Shipwreck Studies Shipwreck Studies is inspired by a collection of found objects that used to belong to my great-grandfather, Francesc Preto - a ship builder and a man who lived by a humanist philosophy of his own. His last project was the construction of a 26 metres long ship that was to become a vegetarian commune with an allotment. Just some years after its completion in the early eighties, the ship was burnt in unknown circumstances. Only a few traces of the hull’s structure, metal parts of Francesc’s old workshop and random everyday objects survived the fire.&nbsp;The scattered fragments of glass, dried plants, ceramic vessels, ship parts, fossils, kitchen utensils, became the components of a series of temporary absurd sculptures. INSTITUTIONS &amp; PARTNERS The exhibition concept of Shipwreck Studies was developed alongside the curator Oriol Fontdevila during an artist residency (February - March 2023). As part of the exhibit&nbsp;After the Mediterranean, I worked together with the learning team at Hauser &amp; Wirth Menorca to produce a series of public workshops.(SEE MORE) The research of this project has been possible thanks to the funding of the Institute of Balearic Studies (IEB). Special thanks to Aina Pomar and Oriol Fontdevila for their thoughtfulness and conversation and to the team at Hauser &amp; Wirth Menorca for making possible the public program and exhibition production of&nbsp;Shipwreck Studies. ARTWORK DETAILS <img width="3508" height="2339" width_o="3508" height_o="2339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d41c82f6d718dcb7836f2181d429d2c2635053cbf20180b41a1864d659494277/ARCAE122600-ARCAE122593-ARCAE122602-hires-1.jpg" data-mid="189079876" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d41c82f6d718dcb7836f2181d429d2c2635053cbf20180b41a1864d659494277/ARCAE122600-ARCAE122593-ARCAE122602-hires-1.jpg" /> Wine-dark Sea&nbsp; La Mar Grisa (images of the sea) gelatin silver handprints 123cm x 155cm Vessel I (a variation)Vessel II Vessel XIgelatin silver handprints 35cm x 40cm Still life with a snail and a spoon Drimia Maritima with supportsgelatin silver handprints 13,5cm x 11cm &nbsp;(frame size 46cm x 37cm)Paco Preto building his last ship, 1981 colour picture, family archive (nfs) 11cm x 8cm Whale womb eye hull (drawing)unframed, ink on paper 15cm x 21cm Shipwreck Studies,&nbsp;Hauser &amp; Wirth Menorca (April - October 2023)Installation pictures by Roberto Ruiz EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected ProjectsPublic Events about https://erolaarcalis.com/Solleric-Flotsam Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:04:40 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/Solleric-Flotsam EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about Flotsam (and other utopias) at Casal Sollericsolo show curated by Aina PomarMallorca, May-September 2023 <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd7117ea04fc4748357d71fadf74e6e5d7f396daef524372557b565ca83bcf5e/31.Derelictes.128_s.jpg" data-mid="189081884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd7117ea04fc4748357d71fadf74e6e5d7f396daef524372557b565ca83bcf5e/31.Derelictes.128_s.jpg" /> In the framework of the Casal Solleric (Mallorca)&nbsp;Flotsam (and other utopias) takes on the forms of the architectural structure as it blends with the Espai Dipòsit. The result is a weave of several voices, generating in turn a new story. Aina Pomar Flotsam (and other utopias) is a site specific installation based exhibition devised in three parts: Act I. Sea / Monument. Series of monochrome imagesAct II. Allotment / Island. Super 8 filmAct III. Flotsam. An assemblage of found objects Act I. Sea / Monument Hung with fishing wires and grounded with leads, an archive picture of my great-grandad standing by his newly built ship opens this exhibition. In the next room an image of the sea enters in conversation with still lifes of everyday objects that were found in the allotment where the ship once was. <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03387060ee0b7f824acbe69633d711a828f2909837729b78e42a5bf1fd323eaf/05.Derelictes.17.jpg" data-mid="189082962" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03387060ee0b7f824acbe69633d711a828f2909837729b78e42a5bf1fd323eaf/05.Derelictes.17.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b8d33e67d25eb6094c0bd90debe1efbf01e0127eb4d899e2461ec4c1737db5f/14.Derelictes.56.jpg" data-mid="189084005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b8d33e67d25eb6094c0bd90debe1efbf01e0127eb4d899e2461ec4c1737db5f/14.Derelictes.56.jpg" /> Act II. Allotment / Island Filmed in the allotment, this short piece shows temporary sculptures made with found and unburied everyday objects that used to belong to my great-grandad. Projected directly onto the hand-sculpted wall of the old water tank. 8mm film of 1:14min duration WATCH HERE <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa851f1ff9c6f5ec48bf35cf360f39771effcaf11c8a5024c6c2518d661f5f47/24.Derelictes.108.jpg" data-mid="189084723" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa851f1ff9c6f5ec48bf35cf360f39771effcaf11c8a5024c6c2518d661f5f47/24.Derelictes.108.jpg" /> <img width="2990" height="2140" width_o="2990" height_o="2140" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/881f564023dab854a06b37fa18988d4a973e0dac6ef1b2842f9809f4d2358dd1/Screenshot-2023-11-24-at-11.49.54.png" data-mid="201524319" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/881f564023dab854a06b37fa18988d4a973e0dac6ef1b2842f9809f4d2358dd1/Screenshot-2023-11-24-at-11.49.54.png" /> Amidst the wilderness there is an isle of concrete in the shape of an eye. An untamed garden of fennel, asphodel, wild olive trees and nopal have grown in the vacant space. Act III. Flotsam Installation of objects found in the allotment where the ship was once moored presented as archaeological finidings bathed in a blue light. Composed of&nbsp;found objects and materials including plants, ship parts, ceramic vessels, fossils, charcoal, kithcen utensils, rope, tiles and glass. <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6dc93707f866d6c000c8ea379a3f23fffec3c8adc465822c3d2c2a28962ade9f/34.Derelictes.135.jpg" data-mid="189082989" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6dc93707f866d6c000c8ea379a3f23fffec3c8adc465822c3d2c2a28962ade9f/34.Derelictes.135.jpg" /> <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ade4ed0f5f6f8131c5a9febdacc1c848e13ae746d3a4fca262340163cb8ee214/49.Derelictes.202.jpg" data-mid="189083994" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ade4ed0f5f6f8131c5a9febdacc1c848e13ae746d3a4fca262340163cb8ee214/49.Derelictes.202.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/159c1b9c5b30813a79aac1b6fac7a11843f37c08adb51b05f8e9ee9295a2e2ec/44.Derelictes.172.jpg" data-mid="189083684" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/159c1b9c5b30813a79aac1b6fac7a11843f37c08adb51b05f8e9ee9295a2e2ec/44.Derelictes.172.jpg" /> PUBLICATION Paco Preto was an avid collector of postcards that he would receive from visitors and passerby’s. &nbsp;Ironically, he himself never travelled, but had a passion for storing hundreds of pictures and greetings from tourists from other lands, some of which he used to cover the entire interior of his ship’s hull. Honouring Francesc’s story, we produced a series of 500 publications containing a collection of postcards on the front side, and a fragmented poem on the back. <img width="2016" height="1440" width_o="2016" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2385e3ce23f960813283f1587e69e840e1a84a047c7fcd4500094c3add9e4000/Erola_IG_04.jpg" data-mid="239050147" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2385e3ce23f960813283f1587e69e840e1a84a047c7fcd4500094c3add9e4000/Erola_IG_04.jpg" /> <img width="2016" height="1440" width_o="2016" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc8c759543ef2ba613c835074547745b7d1e5b3ea4eebebd150fced3b7ffc911/Erola_IG_05.jpg" data-mid="239050145" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc8c759543ef2ba613c835074547745b7d1e5b3ea4eebebd150fced3b7ffc911/Erola_IG_05.jpg" /> <img width="2016" height="1440" width_o="2016" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87b81865b2085ae8b29f9e741675326133763756ca2a5492fe427daa956f7d25/Erola_IG_06.jpg" data-mid="239050146" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87b81865b2085ae8b29f9e741675326133763756ca2a5492fe427daa956f7d25/Erola_IG_06.jpg" /> Designed &amp; documented by Hastalastantas. WORKSHOP Creative Practice &amp; the Family Archive in collaboration with Marina Planas and Casa Planas postcards and photography archive. The workshop reflected on what constitutes a family archive. How do we remember a person, object or landscape that no longer exists? Which is the role of archives in enabling the communication between people and their personal and collective history? This activity open to the general public delved into those questions taking a practical and suggestive approach to archive making and narrating. SEE MORE INSTITUTIONS &amp; PARTNERS Aina Pomar’s curatorial proposal for this solo project was selected by Casal Solleric, Palma Cultura, Palma Council. The research of this project has been possible thanks to the funding of the Institute of Balearic Studies (IEB). A public workshop about art practice and family archive was organised as part of the exhibition program in collaboration with Casa Planas archive. <img width="1541" height="2740" width_o="1541" height_o="2740" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de3c0b7eee5948a009cbe20c1d3b47ecca745b7cbe767f362cf53d7e00106819/Erola_IG_Story_3.jpg" data-mid="239050143" border="0" data-scale="46" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de3c0b7eee5948a009cbe20c1d3b47ecca745b7cbe767f362cf53d7e00106819/Erola_IG_Story_3.jpg" /> ARTWORK DETAILS Act I. Sea / Monument Archive picture. Inkjet reproduction on Hanhnemüle paper. Framed in a perspex box hung with fishing wire and leads. Series of 5 monochrome gelatin silver handprints.Act II. Allotment / IslandSuper 8 Film Digitalised from 8mm1:14min. Loop Act III. FlotsamSite specific installation of found objects (baluster, pitcher, pestle, spoon, snails, propeller, ceramic vessel, tiles). Materials: wood, metal, dry plants, fossils, charcoal, ship engine parts, rope, glass, ceramic. CREDITS Installation pictures: Juan David Cortés Publication design and publication pictures: Hastalastantas EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about https://erolaarcalis.com/Xaloc Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:37:20 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/Xaloc EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05571b6a369ef5128d879310937a0070b94f2d3e398af333c9049d6225046f3d/Erola_Arcalis_Xaloc_Studio_Documentation-11.jpg" data-mid="250292152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05571b6a369ef5128d879310937a0070b94f2d3e398af333c9049d6225046f3d/Erola_Arcalis_Xaloc_Studio_Documentation-11.jpg" />Xaloc2024 - 2025oil on silver gelatin handprint, 90 x 110cm On odd days, during summertime, the warm sirocco wind veils the southern coast of Menorca, transporting particles of the Sahara desert and a quietly moved lead-dyed-sea. ‘Xaloc’ - ‘sirocco’ in Menorcan dialect, originally from the Arab ‘suruq’ - means ‘sunrise’, or ‘from the south-east’. <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/462326fb4ad0c2c239aabfb3bb292e8e5bb3ed996a74830c907f9e0f525d1561/Erola_Arcalis_Xaloc_Studio_Documentation-4.jpg" data-mid="250292147" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/462326fb4ad0c2c239aabfb3bb292e8e5bb3ed996a74830c907f9e0f525d1561/Erola_Arcalis_Xaloc_Studio_Documentation-4.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1cf8450c937911668cc33fe09ec5aa7ff8000dbdc9b82ef5ecbabcd7019c2436/Erola_Arcalis_Xaloc_Studio_Documentation-9.jpg" data-mid="250292206" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1cf8450c937911668cc33fe09ec5aa7ff8000dbdc9b82ef5ecbabcd7019c2436/Erola_Arcalis_Xaloc_Studio_Documentation-9.jpg" /> &nbsp;<img width="1875" height="2344" width_o="1875" height_o="2344" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/290475b0a68f8f3ff8158af5d8c48b0569bba52e1a200ee7d1ffaa5870bd02cd/children_sirocco.jpg" data-mid="250491971" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/290475b0a68f8f3ff8158af5d8c48b0569bba52e1a200ee7d1ffaa5870bd02cd/children_sirocco.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6d4679e75802a5f53d5009d4725280ee0442c5b9e0ed5613cf9615fecf557ce/Erola_Arcalis_Xaloc_Studio_Documentation-3.jpg" data-mid="250292158" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6d4679e75802a5f53d5009d4725280ee0442c5b9e0ed5613cf9615fecf557ce/Erola_Arcalis_Xaloc_Studio_Documentation-3.jpg" /> EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about https://erolaarcalis.com/SELECTED-PROJECTS-1 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:51:15 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/SELECTED-PROJECTS-1 EROLA ARCALÍS Recent exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about SELECTED PROJECTS Arcalís combines images of abstract landscapes and sculptural still life to create fictions around individual and collective memories. Drawing on mythology and poetry, her practice navigates staged photographs, historical research and personal experience. Shipwreck Studies Los Ausentes Arcadia Fireweed Lethe / Aletheia <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d71ba277729dde0da24e6cbe393024655bf3d4e0e23c818917e5dd5f64cb9684/Erola_Arcalis_Shipwreck_Studies_Vessel_1_variation_2500px.jpg" data-mid="200366612" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d71ba277729dde0da24e6cbe393024655bf3d4e0e23c818917e5dd5f64cb9684/Erola_Arcalis_Shipwreck_Studies_Vessel_1_variation_2500px.jpg" /> Shipwreck Studies <img width="2500" height="1984" width_o="2500" height_o="1984" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7adaedc40ede46692b91db6e25a6591197e722d49e9776a4c9006c320a96a5ed/Mesadelosausentes_dyptych-A_2500px.jpg" data-mid="200366604" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7adaedc40ede46692b91db6e25a6591197e722d49e9776a4c9006c320a96a5ed/Mesadelosausentes_dyptych-A_2500px.jpg" /> Los Ausentes <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f20070405c55c544591de99409e240f569f0383ea78e0b1f153cc05962d17b35/Fireweed-01.jpg" data-mid="200366607" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f20070405c55c544591de99409e240f569f0383ea78e0b1f153cc05962d17b35/Fireweed-01.jpg" /> Fireweed <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b284511cb1aa95615ee9c4638cd17ebf2c0e72811a032dca76ba724ec228b429/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_01.jpg" data-mid="200366605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b284511cb1aa95615ee9c4638cd17ebf2c0e72811a032dca76ba724ec228b429/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_01.jpg" /> Lethe Erola Arcalís Recent exhibitions Selected Projects about erola.arcalis@gmail.com https://erolaarcalis.com/Arcadia Sun, 24 May 2020 16:11:03 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/Arcadia EROLA ARCALÍS Recent exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about ARCADIA (2017 - ongoing) <img width="960" height="1200" width_o="960" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41c86b69e671ece74471e6896019a900828a575b2d5eb977609086648c754726/Buttes_05.jpg" data-mid="72237995" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/41c86b69e671ece74471e6896019a900828a575b2d5eb977609086648c754726/Buttes_05.jpg" /> Arcadia collects a series of landscaped gardens that represent multiple interpretations of the Paradise myth. This project is a result of a number of journeys and residencies - across the UK, France and Italy - that focuses on landscapes visited during the Grand Tour. Arcadia reassesses the Romantic view of the eighteenth century travellers in an attempt to understand how their perception and representation of the landscape has shaped the way in which tourists think of the visited landscape and relate to new territories. By establishing tangential correlations between historical gardens built in different temporal and geographical spaces, and connecting them with depictions in painting (JMW Turner) and literary traditions (Horace, Virgil), this investigation uses a non-linear narrative that connects past and present as a means to imagine how a future landscape may look like.&nbsp;Arcadia takes the shape of a long poem in the making that is composed of a number of cantos exploring different symbols and myths - the island, the fall, the cave, the sacred tree. With the collaboration of the Italian institutions FAI (Fondo dell’Ambiente Italiano),&nbsp;Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l'Area Metropolitana di Roma&nbsp;e per la Provincia di Rieti (Lazio).&nbsp;Supported by the Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics, Institut Ramon Llull (Spain),&nbsp;and the residency program l’Aquila Reale Arte e Natura (Italy). <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f475539b69888226134497af9224ebe4bf8aa4d064d885e2fd7355dc60fb7260/Erola_Arcalis_Arcadia_Villa_Gregoriana_Tivoli_2022_22.jpg" data-mid="201423807" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f475539b69888226134497af9224ebe4bf8aa4d064d885e2fd7355dc60fb7260/Erola_Arcalis_Arcadia_Villa_Gregoriana_Tivoli_2022_22.jpg" /> Canto I: The Valley of Hell <img width="1764" height="2500" width_o="1764" height_o="2500" 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width="960" height="1200" width_o="960" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e3cdef2b0282879e4e483213deb52247430d7c25ff212d37adb4f6e2c2e8345/Daguerre_03_insta.jpg" data-mid="72239183" border="0" data-scale="46" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/4e3cdef2b0282879e4e483213deb52247430d7c25ff212d37adb4f6e2c2e8345/Daguerre_03_insta.jpg" /> Canto II: The Island A garden is an island is an island is an island is a garden <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7ee82179e44973eb126c0c55eb934c76fddfe00a5e5ddbc54f576b645b2e720/img20230420_18160858.jpg" data-mid="201423756" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7ee82179e44973eb126c0c55eb934c76fddfe00a5e5ddbc54f576b645b2e720/img20230420_18160858.jpg" /> Canto IV. &nbsp;The Sacred Tree <img width="900" height="1200" width_o="900" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9537ad5723d48972303a07b4278581d612fd1383b53b585bf9cda3c848ccc13f/follies_04_insta.jpg" data-mid="72239756" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/9537ad5723d48972303a07b4278581d612fd1383b53b585bf9cda3c848ccc13f/follies_04_insta.jpg" /> Fox-Talbot’s tree <img width="1292" height="1500" width_o="1292" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/763fbd1166c56473757708139262d6332f72e2b5c4e18383ee1028108ec7ac39/Fox_Talbot_Great_Elm_at_Lacock_1843-45_salted_paper_print_from_paper_negativec_Wilson_Centre_Photography.jpg" data-mid="239152125" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/763fbd1166c56473757708139262d6332f72e2b5c4e18383ee1028108ec7ac39/Fox_Talbot_Great_Elm_at_Lacock_1843-45_salted_paper_print_from_paper_negativec_Wilson_Centre_Photography.jpg" /> The Great Elm at Lacock, 1843, Henry Fox-Talbot <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" 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cheerful and morbid‭, both an ornament for a gentelman’s groundsand a mirror for his mind‭.‬ EROLA ARCALÍS Recent exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about https://erolaarcalis.com/Los-Ausentes Wed, 13 May 2020 11:14:48 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/Los-Ausentes EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about Los Ausentes 2019 Exhibited in Peckham 24 (Rehearsing the Real,&nbsp;curated by Tom Lovelace, 2019) and OAS Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC (Nuestros Ancestros,&nbsp;curated by Fabian Gonçalves &amp; Rafa Cruz,&nbsp;2023). Los Ausentes - The Absent Ones - echoes a table that was staged at the Venice Biennial of 1976, where Spain was unofficially invited to occupy the central pavilion. In the exhibition "Spain: Artistic Vanguard and Social Reality (1936 - 1976*)" the curators Valeriano Bozal and Tomàs Llorens set up an empty dinner scenario to honor the memory of missing artists who’d fled or were killed during, before, and after the Spanish Civil War. This project restages the dinner table as a homage to the tertulias - social gatherings held in cafés and public spaces, where people meet to exchange ideas and debate current affairs. The deliberate absence of chairs becomes an invitation to return to shared rituals of conversation and presence. It asks us not only to remember those who are missing, but also to reclaim the table as a space of community, reflection, and coexistence. <img width="2500" height="1984" width_o="2500" height_o="1984" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3bf9bd48a88efc2be743f27e79dfa1ac78e29b71aad3ec78b2ea39938c9fd35/Mesadelosausentes_dyptych-A_2500px.jpg" data-mid="70824659" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3bf9bd48a88efc2be743f27e79dfa1ac78e29b71aad3ec78b2ea39938c9fd35/Mesadelosausentes_dyptych-A_2500px.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1976" width_o="2500" height_o="1976" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a8f6baed1daa8b98ce2ca5d33ba25f23bdb1a71e67a9e92cbd48a29c6f7587c/Mesadelosausentes_dyptych-B_2500px.jpg" data-mid="70824776" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a8f6baed1daa8b98ce2ca5d33ba25f23bdb1a71e67a9e92cbd48a29c6f7587c/Mesadelosausentes_dyptych-B_2500px.jpg" /> <img width="2706" height="2150" width_o="2706" height_o="2150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/991f482ce3ae7fec1fe1a18294682ef6758288c0d567748a4d27ddc5b9dd8eb2/Ausentes_013-copy.jpg" data-mid="71464923" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/991f482ce3ae7fec1fe1a18294682ef6758288c0d567748a4d27ddc5b9dd8eb2/Ausentes_013-copy.jpg" /> When the pure shapes sankunder the chirping of daisies,I knew they had murdered me.They combed the cafés, graveyards, and churches for me,pried open casks and cabinets,destroyed three skeletons in order to rip out their gold teeth. But they couldn’t find me anymore.They couldn’t?No, they couldn’t find me.But they discovered the sixth moon had fled against the torrent, and the sea—suddenly!—rememberedthe names of all its drowned. From Fable of Three Friends to Be Sung in Rounds Federico García Lorca <img width="800" height="450" width_o="800" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b3d39888a5db6c5249b214c754ca760bc93760ec5835fe76238eb4eb4e44728/59723bd08af5a_4_800x450.jpeg" data-mid="239197184" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/3b3d39888a5db6c5249b214c754ca760bc93760ec5835fe76238eb4eb4e44728/59723bd08af5a_4_800x450.jpeg" /> Archive picture: artists group Generación del 27 ARTWORK DETAILS Los Ausentes, 2019 DypthicGelatin silver hand print The Landscape of a Tablecloth, 2019Gelatin silver hand print INSTITUTIONS &amp; PARTNERS Showing Los Ausentes at the OAS Museum of the Americas was possible thanks to my participation at the FotoFest portfolio review (Houston, TX, 2024), which was sponsored by the IEB (Institute of Balearic Studies). Our Ancestors brings together women artists using photography as a tool to navigate time transversally to speak about individual and collective memories that are at the verge of being forgotten.&nbsp;Curated by Fabian Gonçalves &amp; Rafa Cruz EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about https://erolaarcalis.com/Fireweed Mon, 31 May 2021 09:28:19 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/Fireweed EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about Fireweed 2017 - 19 T.S. Eliot’s abstractions of post-war London landscapes - The Wasteland - inspired a series of elegies sketched during long walks along the River Lea. The dormant weeds appearing in the still life diptych were collected from the riverbed by Arcadia street in Poplar, a century after East London was heavily bombed during the First World War. Brian Dillon describes fireweed (Rosebay willow herb) as a symbol of both regeneration and decay. In turn, the weeping willows embody a lamenting figure. <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eadc10319cd56f0ca5c88b5ade7ca3e24b1d60c9f8550ddb55a44fbd1e406b43/Fireweed-01.jpg" data-mid="109985409" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eadc10319cd56f0ca5c88b5ade7ca3e24b1d60c9f8550ddb55a44fbd1e406b43/Fireweed-01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb45556d850accdd96b8aaf02520aa09d78b38ed142926b65262269b0bb8e291/Fireweed-02.jpg" data-mid="109985408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb45556d850accdd96b8aaf02520aa09d78b38ed142926b65262269b0bb8e291/Fireweed-02.jpg" /> Fireweed. ‘Rosebay willow herb is a ruin-loving plant, the weed of decayed modernity. [...] the plant is a marker of disruption and decay, and grows on charred ground after forest fires have destroyed all other vegetation. So attuned is it to such sites that if it does not appear in the wake of a fire it is sometimes sown as to start the process of organic regeneration - it is a plant of hope as much as ruination. At the seminary, it seems to stand sentinel in rows about the buildings, as if gaily awaiting some ritual or celebration by which the complex might be brought back to life.’ ‘Sanctuary’, Brian Dillon <img width="1386" height="1108" width_o="1386" height_o="1108" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b85fd18837730e7def991756adac272c3e85002200c3d5f827f682741dd269e/arcadia-road_latham-street-poplar-bw.jpg" data-mid="239144646" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b85fd18837730e7def991756adac272c3e85002200c3d5f827f682741dd269e/arcadia-road_latham-street-poplar-bw.jpg" /> <img width="349px;" height="204px;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0291d2ea99b6b6c3e44e861ad6c39bfaa7ebb265a2660d7651925f32c48c4278/embedded-364db7a7.png" style="width: 349px; height: 204px;"> <img width="308px;" height="384px;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4dc4ffb498d07e13879d22f3d7e29182ae40d63bb0dbfbb235b5f7a2e4fa5ee/embedded-84c975bd.png" style="width: 308px; height: 384px;" data-scale="100">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="308px;" height="386px;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d015e9b8cb03bbe6189314dd02229d4f465f405edd25873c9c403ae8168143ca/embedded-389b1b0b.png" style="width: 308px; height: 386px;"> Archive images credits Fig.1:&nbsp;Arcadia Road after the bombings, 1919, Imperial War Museum Collection Fig.2:&nbsp;The Menin Road, 1919, Paul Nash, oil on canvas, Imperial War Museum Collection Fig.3: The Wasteland, T.S. Eliott EROLA ARCALÍS Recent Exhibitions Selected Projects Public Events about erola.arcalis@gmail.com https://erolaarcalis.com/Lethe Thu, 28 May 2020 18:15:47 +0000 Erola Arcalís https://erolaarcalis.com/Lethe EROLA ARCALÍS Recent exhibitions Selected Projects about Lethe / Aletheia2017 Exhibited in: A Corner With, Centro Cultural Galileo (PhotoEspaña) and Copperfield Gallery. Lethe / Aletheia (to conceal / to reveal)&nbsp;explores the symbol of the cave as a subliminal and meditative space between birth and disappearance. Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s ‘Company’, the curatorial space of A Corner With was transformed into a darkroom, where large, abstract silver gelatin handprints of a cave become reminiscent of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (The Metamorphoses). The images embody the psychological space of the characters from those stories who appear isolated from the world around them and seem to have lost touch with themselves. Becoming only a voice in the dark - one that reverberates, repeats, and yet does not seem to be able to articulate a message. The images were made in Greece, where one of the entrances to the Underworld is believed to be, and the location of some of the passages of Homer’s Odyssey. In Greek Mythology the cavern is a place of origin and disappearance, of revelation and forgetfulness; the liminal space between life and death. The words “Lethe” and “Aletheia” in Greek translate as “to forget, to conceal” and “to remember, to reveal”. &nbsp; <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b284511cb1aa95615ee9c4638cd17ebf2c0e72811a032dca76ba724ec228b429/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_01.jpg" data-mid="72788502" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b284511cb1aa95615ee9c4638cd17ebf2c0e72811a032dca76ba724ec228b429/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_01.jpg" /> a mere murmur. Here suddenly seenhow his eyes close as soon as the voice sounds.Should they happen to be open at the time.So light as let be &nbsp;faintest light no longer perceivedthan &nbsp;the time it takes the lid to fall.Taste? The taste in his mouth? Long since dulled.Touch? The thrist of the ground against his bones. <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/392bc6e7dad08dd9532e34b005b7de8a439d44fb28bdf44cb361d679de39712f/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_07.jpg" data-mid="72790811" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/392bc6e7dad08dd9532e34b005b7de8a439d44fb28bdf44cb361d679de39712f/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_07.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3940232b05c4dbba8b5b4e8662ec2e078f292e3418a1df8d9ea34c17eceabb22/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_02.jpg" data-mid="72790824" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3940232b05c4dbba8b5b4e8662ec2e078f292e3418a1df8d9ea34c17eceabb22/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_02.jpg" />A voice As wax melts before the gentle firedarkly then the fading form- ‘Stay!’, shouted, ‘Stay!’ <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfee46e069deb51fe418bcf209cd6e0eb771c2f9fb5c35509f244bb8136a2fb0/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_06.jpg" data-mid="72791205" border="0" data-scale="26" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfee46e069deb51fe418bcf209cd6e0eb771c2f9fb5c35509f244bb8136a2fb0/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_06.jpg" /> A Flamegelatin silver print30 x 40 cm <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/922d4693e6733c36085a33a4b6a6ce047042f65bab85f6c7b19a30b3e6825a0d/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_04.jpg" data-mid="72791233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/922d4693e6733c36085a33a4b6a6ce047042f65bab85f6c7b19a30b3e6825a0d/Lethe_Arcalis_2000px_04.jpg" /> Orpheus gelatin silver handprint117 x 153 cm <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/653c3bb96df1289bebd78cf4369f1b6f734491dc18632447916c2c0a82a28da9/A_Corner_With_Erola_Arcalis_2018_London-2.jpg" data-mid="239112377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/653c3bb96df1289bebd78cf4369f1b6f734491dc18632447916c2c0a82a28da9/A_Corner_With_Erola_Arcalis_2018_London-2.jpg" /> EXHIBITIONS OF THIS PROJECT A corner Withsolo show curated by Trine Stephesen, London, 2018 Descubrimientos Photo EspañaCentro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, 2019 (This) precious stone, Copperfield, February 2020curated by Aina Pomarwith Irene de Andrés, Inés Cámara Leret, Yorgos Petrou,Stéphanie Saadé, Oscar Santillán + Yoko Ono http://www.copperfieldgallery.com/this-precious-stone-set-in-the-silver-sea.html &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="2000" height="1115" width_o="2000" height_o="1115" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55064051ec92b6e1c9b3dcb31eb4cbdf14cdd2e3f82e3396e189c656111843bb/_EHP1258_crop_s.JPG" data-mid="72791363" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55064051ec92b6e1c9b3dcb31eb4cbdf14cdd2e3f82e3396e189c656111843bb/_EHP1258_crop_s.JPG" /> Installation picture of (This) precious stone, Copperfield, Londoncredits: Eva Herzog <img width="800" height="571" width_o="800" height_o="571" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e796fcc8c0cd59053744fa6c46c37af88936a937e731e53ca9d6c666040f678/Acornerwith_EArcalis_02.jpg" data-mid="201548232" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/3e796fcc8c0cd59053744fa6c46c37af88936a937e731e53ca9d6c666040f678/Acornerwith_EArcalis_02.jpg" />Installation picture of A Corner With, Londonwith a live performance by Joshua Leon PUBLICATION Publication with Trine StephesenExhibition catalogue, A Corner With <img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cd42c17ae10abea8464ec3def7d3263206f20643736552d10c48f7b453134ca/Lethe_A_Corner_With_Erola_Arcalis_Trine_Stephesen-2.jpg" data-mid="201553116" border="0" data-scale="25" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2cd42c17ae10abea8464ec3def7d3263206f20643736552d10c48f7b453134ca/Lethe_A_Corner_With_Erola_Arcalis_Trine_Stephesen-2.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; Pages: 36 Format: Softcover Size: 20 x 25 cm Printing: 100 gsm Uncoated, black print throughout with unique cut outs in each publication. Hand bound with linen. Edition of 50Available HERE INSTITUTIONS &amp; PARTNERS Centro Cultural Galileo, Photo España Performance by artist &amp; writer Joshua Leon Erola Arcalís Recent exhibitions Selected Projects about erola.arcalis@gmail.com