Bernier Eliades Gallery - Martina Quesada, If This Is a Space
28/08/2025
Martina Quesada, If This Is a Space
Opening: September 4, 2025, 17:00 - 21:00 in the presence of the artist
Running until October 25, 2025
Opening: September 4, 2025, 17:00 - 21:00 in the presence of the artist
Running until October 25, 2025
Martina Quesada’s practice encompasses sculpture, installation, and video, challenging the boundaries of materiality, perception, continuity, and spirituality. For this exhibition, the artist has created a series of artworks that function as a visual synthesis distanced from any narrative structures, yet consistent with an internal order. The body comprising wall sculptures and works on paper is to be perceived as a system of interrelated forms. Repetition, variation, and spatial arrangement - across both sculptural and pictorial media - generate a quiet yet intentional rhythm.
Quesada’s works engage with tensions between material presence and symbolic suggestion, visibility and withholding. Geometric forms are treated not as fixed compositions, but as propositions - flexible structures that allow for shifts in perception. The use of pigment on paper introduces a more atmospheric register, extending the sculptural language into the pictorial. Rather than occupying space in a conventional sense, her works aim to activate it as a site of resonance. They do not seek to impose meaning, but instead establish a set of conditions through which meaning may emerge.
Martina Quesada (b. 1987) lives and works in Paris. She is a self-taught artist whose practice has developed through sustained, hands-on study with master artisans and material specialists. Her research has taken her across Latin America and Europe, including in-depth work with ceramicists and chromists dedicated to traditional pigment-making techniques in Peru and Mexico. Quesada has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in London, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Lima. Her work is held in both institutional and private collections, including the MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires and the MALI – Museum of Art of Lima. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at MACBA, opening in November 2026.
The Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 18:00 - www.bernier-eliades.com
Martina Quesada, “The borders are fragile II”, 2023 | Marble dust, pigment, gesso wood and linen | 142 × 217 × 4 cm | 55.9 × 85.4 × 1.6 in | Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Quesada’s works engage with tensions between material presence and symbolic suggestion, visibility and withholding. Geometric forms are treated not as fixed compositions, but as propositions - flexible structures that allow for shifts in perception. The use of pigment on paper introduces a more atmospheric register, extending the sculptural language into the pictorial. Rather than occupying space in a conventional sense, her works aim to activate it as a site of resonance. They do not seek to impose meaning, but instead establish a set of conditions through which meaning may emerge.
Martina Quesada (b. 1987) lives and works in Paris. She is a self-taught artist whose practice has developed through sustained, hands-on study with master artisans and material specialists. Her research has taken her across Latin America and Europe, including in-depth work with ceramicists and chromists dedicated to traditional pigment-making techniques in Peru and Mexico. Quesada has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in London, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Lima. Her work is held in both institutional and private collections, including the MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires and the MALI – Museum of Art of Lima. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at MACBA, opening in November 2026.
The Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 18:00 - www.bernier-eliades.com
Martina Quesada, “The borders are fragile II”, 2023 | Marble dust, pigment, gesso wood and linen | 142 × 217 × 4 cm | 55.9 × 85.4 × 1.6 in | Photo: Courtesy of the artist
