Elisa Braem and Sandra Cinto: day and night converse at Es Baluard

Elisa Braem and Sandra Cinto are the voices shaping the new exhibitions at Es Baluard in Palma for the end of 2025. The Mallorcan artist and the Brazilian creator present independent projects, but intimately connected by deep affinities that are revealed beyond the obvious.

At first glance, their languages seem to speak from different extremes: formal and conceptual worlds that do not intersect. However, upon delving deeper into their works, a subtle resonance emerges—a hidden harmony—that unites their creative universes. It is in the details that their proposals begin to converse: in their shared sensitivity, in the way they approach landscape, time, and matter as vehicles of contemplation and experience.

Both artists work from their own personal languages, but find common ground in the formats and symbolic resonances their creations evoke. They confessed this at the presentation of their respective exhibitions, which have been on display since this Thursday, September 18th, in the galleries of Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani.

At Es Baluard’s Espacio D, the Mallorcan artist Elisa Braem (Oostende, Belgium, 1991) presents Nos encontros en la noche (We met in the night) , a sculptural project curated by Aina Pomar Cloquell, where matter becomes language and symbol. Clay, enamel, wood and metal intertwine in a universe where animal, plant and human forms coexist, evoking a nature reconstructed from memory, architecture and contemporary sensibility.

• Work by Elisa Braem in Es Baluard.

Braem proposes a symbiosis between body and environment, between gesture and landscape. Night, understood as a space of encounter—with oneself, with others, with the invisible—guides the tone of this deeply philosophical and poetic exhibition. Her sculptures, imbued with a delicate vitality, are metaphors of time, of slow transformation, of the traces left by what we have experienced.

Curator Aina Pomar Cloquell points out that this, the artist's first institutional exhibition, is the result of a constant dialogue between idea and material: "Every gesture, every firing has guided the process. The result is a new body of work in which Elisa Braem plays with color and form to approach her recurring themes: the sky, transformation, light, and landscape." Thus, Braem's work transcends the purely sculptural to become an experience. A sensitive journey between the earthly and the universal, where the landscape ceases to be an image to become a shared experience. A sculptural proposal curated by Aina Pomar Cloquell. In it, ceramics, metal, and wood dialogue with poetry, philosophy, and the memory of the Mediterranean landscape, weaving a work that is as tangible as it is symbolic.

Artist Sandra Cinto (Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil, 1968) invites us to delve into Prelude to the Sun and Stars , a site-specific project curated by Jackie Herbst, which transforms the exhibition space into a landscape suspended between the intimate and the infinite. Through the delicate strokes of drawing, the cadence of lines, and the musicality of rhythm, Cinto constructs a contemplative universe that guides us on a sensorial and symbolic journey: from the scale of the body to the dimensions of the cosmos. Her work, woven with patience and precision, opens a space where the personal merges with the celestial, proposing a pause to look inward... and upward.

Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto, curated by Jackie Herbst, transforms the museum into a vast dreamscape. Her immersive installation, conceived as an expanded horizon, envelops visitors in an atmosphere of serene contemplation, where time seems to stand still.

Two exhibitions that, using different languages, invite introspection and wonder. Cinto's exhibition will be on view until January 11, 2026, while Braem's will remain open to the public until February 1, 2026. Both exhibitions engage in a subtle dialogue around the power of art to awaken perception, summon memory, and expand collective consciousness. Through distinct but complementary languages, Sandra Cinto and Elisa Braem offer viewers experiences where body, matter, and symbol intertwine, opening spaces for contemplation and proposing new ways of inhabiting the present—slower, deeper, more conscious.