HORIZONTAL FORMS

Text by Verónica Echeverría

In these works, experience does not appear as an event but as a form of suspended attention. Repetition, minimal gestures, and chromatic restraint establish a controlled duration—a quietness that calls for sustained looking.

Space does not describe; it regulates. The human figures do not act; they inhabit a reduced repertoire of postures, distances, and colors that emphasize an economy of contained emotion. Green—present in every painting—functions as a mood, neutralizing expectation, organizing the gaze, and administering calm.

Its use recalls both the technical criteria of the twentieth century and an aesthetic in which color disciplines rather than decorates.

These images neither rely on irony nor promise revelation. Instead, they propose an ethics of permanence: an insistence on form, repetition, and imperfect symmetry.

ARTIST STATEMENT — FRANCISCO PERÓ

Francisco Peró’s practice unfolds as a space for reflecting on identity—not as a fixed idea, but as a territory of tension between what is visible and what is concealed, what is inherited and what is constructed.

His work brings together pictorial rigor and introspective gesture. Subtle interruptions—fragments, shadows, voids—open zones of ambiguity and shift the viewer’s perception. Painting becomes a site of transit, closer to uncertainty than to definition.

These images inhabit an interval between the intimate and the historical, where time and memory unfold in layers. Beyond portraiture, Peró delves into the complexity of being—not to fix it, but to understand it.