Exhibitions
Jorge Satorre's Estuary: Narrative with Material, Drawing, and Form
The exhibition Ría , by artist Jorge Satorre, marks his first solo show at a Spanish institution and presents itself as a subtle yet profound immersion in an artistic practice that transcends the boundaries between disciplines. Through a hybrid language that combines drawing, sculpture, and a complex material narrative, Satorre constructs a proposal that transcends the accumulation of works to become an open and evocative interpretive experience.
Ría is not articulated as a linear journey, but rather as a space in which formal and conceptual elements converse with a silent yet powerful cadence. The pieces included in the exhibition—some produced specifically for this occasion—often draw from specific historical or territorial references, but are reformulated with a sensibility that privileges transformation over representation. Satorre's work thus inhabits an intermediate territory, where the artistic object is charged with memory without relinquishing its potential for reinvention: to be reimagined, decontextualized, and, above all, reinterpreted.
One of the distinctive features of his practice is the use of drawing not as a preparatory sketch, but as a tool for reflection. In his work, drawing functions as a means of research, recording, speculating, and constructing meaning. Along with it, sculpture acquires a narrative dimension: three-dimensional forms not only occupy space, but also activate, displace, and redefine it.
The curatorial proposal developed by Latitudes does not act as a closed explanatory framework, but rather amplifies Satorre's poetics by emphasizing the tensions, silences, and ambiguities present in his work. Far from offering a single reading, the curatorship opens multiple lines of interpretation and transforms the exhibition into a space for sensorial and intellectual activation.
Ría can be understood, in this sense, as a cartography of ideas and forms in transit. A conceptual landscape that challenges the viewer not only to look, but to read between the lines, to discover invisible connections, to trace their own interpretive paths. The exhibition doesn't impose a narrative, but rather suggests one, and it is precisely in this gesture that much of its power lies.
This first institutional solo exhibition by Jorge Satorre in Spain not only consolidates his international career but also highlights a way of doing things that embraces research, subtlety, and critical intelligence. Ría is, ultimately, an invitation to look closely and think freely.
This tour of Jorge Satorre's Ría will be on view until August 31 and covers the artist's period from 2013 to 2025, marking a process of introspection in which Satorre adjusts the distance between visual forms and personal and collective references. The exhibition is structured around a conceptual progression that guides the visitor throughout the tour. The starting point is marked by pieces such as Triplay , a set of swinging doors designed specifically for the entrance hall, which function almost as a symbolic threshold to the exhibition proposal. As the exhibition progresses, the visual and material narrative becomes more introspective and linked to the artist's personal experience, reaching works such as the mural Ricardo and the drawing Río, ría . The latter are directly related to his recent move from Mexico City to Bilbao and function as evocations of the Atlantic landscape that gives meaning and title to the exhibition. In this transition between the structural and the intimate, the material and the symbolic, the exhibition traces a sensitive narrative about displacement, belonging, and transformation.
