Prelude #0090

Gold is a controversial symbol. As bright and blinding as its mystical presence may be, it also contains the inequality embedded in human history. That tension society projects onto this element is perhaps what led Bryan Romero to use gold leaf in his work on kraft paper.

The works gathered in this exhibition move through different moments of his trajectory—from his early critical and experimental pieces, through the gilded insects of Prelude to the Nimbo Universe, and arriving at The First Tree. Y todavía, they all speak to one another with a coherence that seems less constructed than discovered. Cockroaches, moths, and beetles coexist with the anonymous mass of confused urban bodies, with the torch amid ruins, and with the solitary tree in a dry forest. All of them share the same question: what resists, what remains, and what is sacralized in order to survive time.

aquí, gold leaf is neither decoration nor luxury; it is the opposite. It is the resource that grants presence to what is fragile, allowing an insect or a freshly cut tree to establish itself at the center of memory. Ink anchors them to the world; gold extracts them from it just enough.

This exhibition is an invitation to follow that light wherever it may lead.