ARCOlisboa 2026

RocioSantaCruz’s proposal establishes an intergenerational dialogue between three Spanish artists: Teresa Gancedo (León, 1937) and Antón Lamazares (Lalín, Pontevedra, 1954), two of the most significant painters of their respective generations, alongside photographer Toni Amengual (Mallorca, 1980).

Memory, identity, and the relationship between the intimate and the collective form the common thread running through the works brought together in the exhibition. Emerging from diverse historical contexts and visual languages, the artists share an approach rooted in lived experience and in the idea of territory as an emotional, symbolic, and cultural construction.

Teresa Gancedo employs a variety of techniques to develop an introspective body of work in which materiality, gesture, and symbolism echo a personal and self-referential memory. Her deeply poetic visual language gives shape to intimate universes and lived experiences in compositions where human figures, animals, and an imagery charged with sensitivity coexist.

Antón Lamazares explores the limits of painting through a practice characterised by formal austerity, the use of humble materials, and an intense expressive charge associated with gesture and language. His work exists between abstraction and writing, transforming the pictorial surface into a space of emotional inscription, capable of articulating an intimate visual language closely linked to the construction of his own identity.

Through photography, Toni Amengual reflects on identity, territory, and the mechanisms of power within contemporary society. His work is characterised by a critical perspective on social and political structures, using the image as a tool to question dominant narratives embedded in everyday reality.

Taken together, the works create a plural map of contemporary art in which tradition and contemporaneity intertwine through a critical and deeply human perspective.

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