"An era builds cities. An hour destroys them."
Águeda de la Pisa & David Beltrán
from June 6, 2026 to July 18, 2026
This project stems from the photographic gaze of two painters: Águeda de la Pisa (Spain, 1942) and David Beltrán (Cuba, 1978) towards two cities that have been a source of inspiration, Madrid and Havana.
Through the pictorial-geometric photography of de la Pisa and Beltrán, their works explore how urban distribution can be transformed into a visual language that inhabits the space between the real and the abstract.
Reality is emptied of content and reference when viewed from another perspective: scale, framing, rotation, or repetition alter the perception of the everyday, stripping the urban space of its recognisable identity. Thus, the city ceases to be a setting and becomes plastic material.
In this play of perspectives and visual pauses, an abstraction of reality is created from reality itself. Each image reveals a duality between what we see and what we believe we see, inviting the viewer to explore the boundary where photography becomes painting, and the city becomes geometry.
Essay on Águeda de la Pisa, photographer. By Juan Manuel Bonet, 2019