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Casas Riegner in ARCO 2026
From the 4th to the 8th of March 2026, Casas Riegner will be presenting a selection of works by Bernardo Ortiz, Carlos Alfonso, Leyla Cárdenas and Luz Lizarazo.
This year, we will be participating in the Artist Proyect section with "Tierra de abrigo: preludio" by Camila Rodríguez Triana.
TIERRA DE ABRIGO – PRELUDE
“(…) We are not anxious: our eyes hold the images that come to them because those are the ones that were meant to come; very slowly, our hands feel the forms that belong to them because they are the destined ones; our hearts are ready to receive what the bosom of becoming holds for them. Our vital force is not spent chasing beings that aren´t meant for it, events that don´t belong to it (…)”
Fernando González, Viaje a pie.
This time living in the mountains has turned my attention back to the everyday images, shapes, and textures that this place I chose to call home offers me. Presences that slowly transform me, like drops of water falling steadily on hard stone until they reshape it. The Andes, my ancestral territory, is now the territory I inhabit. The knowledge that comes from this land—which I read about, studied, and remembered through my hands and feet—now lives in what surrounds me. After walking through the ancestral, the journey pauses in the present: in what the territory offers, in the fabric our soul weaves with it each day, in every daily action.
The works I present in this exhibition are the result of careful observation of this land: of losing myself in its physical and biological dimension, but also in that energetic dimension, invisible to the eyes but visible to the soul. The repetition of action and image emerges as a process of learning and reconstruction that reaches into the depths. These works are a tribute to Mother Earth, who shelters me today as she sheltered my ancestors.
Thread then becomes the material that writes the subtle, the invisible, and the vibratory—like the hummingbird—but also traces the fabric of territory from the collective and architectural, as the oropendola proposes. A thread that fixes in memory the sky turning red at dawn and dusk while frogs sing; or the trace of rain suspended in the dew: drops that, like the serpent, remind us of vital energy, transformation, and the origin of life. Threads that make us aware of the weft, but also of the warp that holds the fabric together, just as that energetic dimension holds together everything that exists.
And so, my hands that once remembered by learning the different ancestral crafts, today weave their present and their future.
¡We look forward to seeing you in Madrid!
Stand 7B19
