Exhibitions
Travel: nature, memory and border with Malagrida and Pernot
Between pigments, vegetation and barriers: how Malagrida and Pernot reveal the memory, history and ecological fragility of the landscape at the Senda Gallery.
The gaze is the main tool of the artist and the public. Through the eyes, colors, shapes and textures acquire meaning, and each work becomes a silent dialogue between the creator and the viewer. Observing is not just seeing: it is interpreting, getting excited and discovering stories hidden in details that at first glance go unnoticed. In the world of art, the gaze awakens the imagination and transforms the visual experience into a personal and unique journey. The Senda Gallery presents Desplazamientos by Anna Malagrida and Mathieu Pernot, the new temporary exhibition of the art gallery on Trafalgar Street in Barcelona.
At the Senda Gallery, Desplazamientos , which will be on view until January 18, by Anna Malagrida and Mathieu Pernot, proposes precisely this: exploring how history, nature and memory converge in the landscape. Their works show the fragility of ecosystems and the historical traces of those who have crossed them, revealing how the movements of plants, animals and people have shaped territories marked by political, economic and affective dynamics.
Anna Malagrida, Landscape #4, 2025.
Malagrida explores the prickly pear and the red cochineal through a game of chromatic superpositions on transparent surfaces. The variations of red —carmine pigment, introduced to the Mediterranean in the 16th century— are superimposed on the landscape of Cap de Creus, creating a double temporality and introducing a contemporary ecological dimension.
Pernot, for his part, directs his camera to the border forest of Melilla, where the eucalyptus—imported from Australia in the 19th century—becomes silent witness to the restrictions on human movement. From this vegetation, the background reveals the metal bars and barbed wire that divide the territory and draw the border between states. The polyptychs fragment the space, evoking the logic of the border and the memory of the territory.
Together, Malagrida and Pernot transform the landscape into a living flow of memory, history and ecology, inviting the viewer to perceive the complexity of the territories and the persistence of their imprints.
Mathieu Pernot, Melilla, 2022.
