Exhibitions
Aureli Ruíz: the cultivation of the breast
Silence and resistance in the age of hyperconnection.
Aureli Ruíz (Reus, 1959) presents at the Tecla Sala Art Center a proposal that invites us to stop and reflect on how constant connectivity, information saturation and addiction to immediacy affect us. Instead of adding more stimuli, Ruiz opens spaces of visual and mental silence, true points of resistance in a hyperconnected world, where we often lose track of who we are or who we would like to be.
The artist, who has been exploring graphic and symbolic forms for decades through his microwriting in his Quadernària notebooks, presents in El cultì de si a selection of works that combine small abstract drawings with large mural interventions made with charcoal. Through this proposal, the author focuses on the collective submission to a digital system that does not give a break. This environment, saturated with stimuli and permanent connectivity, erodes the capacity for one's own thinking and transforms the rhythms of daily life. Ruiz's graphic work focuses, precisely, on these dynamics that leave us immersed in a growing dependence, and he does so by dialogue with scenarios that invite us to refocus our attention and reconnect with a more conscious state of our own body and mind. The traces left by this constant pressure are visible in the small drawings that complement the mural pieces. These seemingly minimal traces become witnesses to how contaminated information circulates and how it affects our fragility in the face of the uncontrolled logic of algorithms.
The exhibition, open until November 2, 2025, is curated by Teresa Blanch and is part of the Observatori Tecla Sala cycle, dedicated to giving visibility to local artists with a consolidated career. In this context, Ruíz puts into play a set of works that connect his work accumulated over the years with a new critical look at the present, a proposal that invites us to pause, observe how we live, how what we consume affects us (especially in the digital sphere) and what tools we have to not disconnect from who we are.
