CARLOS GARCÍA: RESONANCE OF THE VOID
VILLAZAN is pleased to present RESONANCE OF THE VOID: A Sensorial Cartography of Absence and Matter, Carlos García’s exhibition with the gallery.
May 29 – July 19, 2025
Can the void resonate? Can absence possess density, geometry, coordinates? These questions find resonance in RESONANCE OF THE VOID, the new exhibition by Carlos García, where a collection of material, contained, and deeply symbolic works unfolds a visual archaeology of what is not there. The void, far from being passive absence, becomes a field charged with tensions: trace, memory, suspended vibration.
Each piece begins from a minimal geometric structure, where the intersection of taut, precise lines of string establishes a visual coordinate that frames the invisible: a point where something once was, a symbolic axis of disappearance. On neutral surfaces (white, grey, raw canvas) matter appears as residue: an earthy accumulation, an eroded relief, a fragment of solidified time.
The tension between presence and absence is reinforced through the incorporation of minerals (coal and galena), which expand the material and symbolic language of the work. In the lighter compositions, coal appears as a fossil trace: matter that was once life, transformed by pressure and time, but also a reminder of territorial dispossession and exhaustion. Its fragility, porosity, and earthy texture evoke erosion and loss. By contrast, in darker pieces, galena introduces a radically different density: an opaque, metallic mineral, visually and symbolically heavy, with a silver, almost specular sheen, suggesting that after disappearance, not only void remains, but shadow too. While coal evokes an eroded void, galena evokes a sealed, nearly hermetic void.
Thus, what was once geometry is now trace; what was once reflection, now shadow; what seems silent, now vibration. The void, in all its dimensions, resonates as latent presence, fixed in the earthy accumulation, in the eroded relief, in the metallic inscription. And above all, in that flash of fluorescent color anchoring the ensemble in the present, reemerges a contemporary urgency: the void is not only past, but also alert, interruption, and a question about the future.