Lo que sigue…

Experimentación, procesos, alquimia

Antoine d’Agata


Cannon Bernáldez

Paola Dávila

Alexandra Germán

Javier Hinojosa

Interspecifics

Margot Kalach

Yael Martínez

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 – Saturday, June 14, 2025

Opening: April 30, 2025 | 3:00 – 9:00 PM

Patricia Conde Galería presents Lo que sigue… Experimentación, procesos, alquimia (What Comes Next… Experimentation, Process, Alchemy), a group exhibition featuring works by Antoine d’Agata, Cannon Bernáldez, Paola Dávila, Alexandra Germán, Javier Hinojosa, Interspecifics, Margot Kalach, and Yael Martínez.

 Lo que sigue… Experimentación, procesos, alquimia is an exhibition where the works push the boundaries of photographic and creative processes. Unique pieces are presented: silver gelatin prints, cyanotypes on silk, manual interventions, darkroom alchemy, and traditional emulsions transformed with acrylic paint strokes.

These are works that cannot be made with a camera or a cellphone. They demand time, matter, error, body, and presence. Each image is the result of an intimate and handcrafted process, where the photographic merges with the tactile, the chemical, and the unexpected.

As Alejandro López López writes in the exhibition text,

“We live in an era where technology has put a camera in every pocket. Taking photographs has become part of our daily lives: it's easy, fast, and cheap. However, this immediacy has also diluted the perception of photographic art. Today, many believe being an artist is as simple as using the device in their pocket. ‘I could’ve done that with my phone,’ is often heard in gallery halls. This exhibition emerges from that experience.”

What Comes Next… seeks to revalue the materiality of the image as an artistic object, exploring its possibilities through process, intervention, and experimentation with photographic techniques. In many of the works, the use of the camera is minimal or even absent. It is the process itself — the engagement with the tangible — that takes center stage.

The pieces presented have been intervened with paint, perforations, or burns; others do away with the camera altogether, but originate from photographic supports — such as silver gelatin or cyanotype — resulting in unique, unrepeatable works. This exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the artistic process and its role in the construction of meaning and value within a work of art.

Here, experimental photography does not aim to document reality, but to expand its frontiers. It embraces accident and exploration, breaking away from traditional conventions and opening a poetic, critical, and self-reflective dimension. It leaves us with a fundamental question: What comes after photography?