Ramón Mateos Des Encuentros

September 30, 2025

Ramón Mateos Participates in Des-Encuentro, at the Dados Negros Holography and Arts Centre. In Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real.This collective exhibition will feature the work ‘Fortaleza Europea’ (European Fortress), a large-format drawing made in ink on a polypropylene thermal blanket, where repetitive gestures have covered the surface until only the shape of the stars on the European flag remain visible. The support is a double-sided thermal blanket, commonly used for its golden side to treat hypothermia in illegal migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, but its silver reverse side is also used to protect the bodies of those who do not survive.

The exhibition opens on 4 October and runs until 31 December 2025.