Pink specks of dust on a garden with no sun

Pink specks of dust on a garden with no sun brings together for the first time the work of Daniel Jacoby and Marie Zolamian in the recently inaugurated space in Madrid by Bombon Projects and Galería Crisis. The exhibition creates a dialogue between Jacoby’s sculptures from the Polvos Rosados series and Zolamian’s paintings and drawings from the Le jardin sans soleil series, both developed over several years.

The title of the exhibition presents a visual oxymoron that serves as a metaphor for the artists’ work: paradoxes that oscillate between the real and the imaginary, the festive and the dystopian.

In Le jardin sans soleil, Zolamian constructs dreamlike landscapes through a meticulous pictorial technique and spontaneous drawings that refer to both fictional narratives and historical memories, as in his research on the psychiatric archives of Geel.

For his part, Jacoby explores the hybrid aesthetics of Lima’s shopping malls in the 1980s in Polvos Rosados, using textiles and LED lights to reflect on the tension between consumption, modernity, and the particularities of the Global South.

Both bodies of work converge in a speculative proposal where imagination operates as a creative and critical force, opening up a space to think about new ways of narrating and inhabiting reality.