Art Brussels 2026
DATE: from April 23, 2026 to April 26, 2026
PLACE: Brussels Expo | Booth 5B09
Freijo Gallery presents a booth that brings together works by three Spanish female artists from different generations — Concha Jerez (1941), Águeda de la Pisa (1942) and Rocío Garriga (1984) — articulating a conceptual dialogue around language, memory, paper and the written word as material.
The presentation unfolds as an intergenerational narrative in which text becomes image, structure and landscape, addressing questions of utopia, abstraction, visibilityand cultural memory.
Concha Jerez presents Through Broken Utopias (2024), a large-scale installation composed of methacrylate mirrors elements, overlaid by a vinyl sticker split in two attached to them and for self-censored writings. These mirrors reflects on fracturedideals and the historical erasure of men and women voices, activating reflection, repetition, and obstruction as conceptual strategies. This work is presented alongside the installation Sopa de estrellas (Star Soup) (1976), featuring a kitsch porcelain souptureen and a European Economic Community flag, both veiled in illegible, self-censored writings. Jerez is a key figure in Spanish conceptual art.
Águeda de la Pisa presents works from the series A Vieira da Silva (2024–2025).Through geometric constructions and refined chromatic relationships, De la Pisa pays tribute to Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and to the legacy of women in abstract modernism. Her work bridges abstraction, structure and memory. Along with another historic piece from 2001.
Rocío Garriga presents works from her project Notion of Landscape. This project in which the artist shape to a series of independent pieces based on classics of world literature. We present two of the dedicated to The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, in which she tells us the narrative arch of Hans Castorp, main character of the book. We also present a sculpture created by the artist in 2014, and two pieces of the series Butterfly Bomb, featuring works developed from her research into the deadliest bomb in history.
Together, the booth proposes a dialogue between conceptual art, abstraction and poetic landscape, highlighting the persistence of the written word as a site of memory, resistance and imagination.
