Aina Albo, a writing of light

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After participating in the reborn Art Cologne Palma, the Balearic artist Aina Albo Puigserver has arrived at Es Baluard Museu to present, under the curator of Sofia Moisés Pizà, the project “Interstices. Where the sun draws time.” She continues to delve deeper into the basic lines of her work: she is the author, fundamentally, of sculptures and paintings on panel in which she combines basic forms of the landscape (slopes, pyramidal peaks, the horizon line) and the geometry that contains light and atmospheric phenomena.

In the case of his pictorial compositions, he uses the superimposition of glazes and gradients to give his images depth and an organic appearance and blends diluted colors with the support that contrast with lacquered lines of more vibrant tones and glued details of cardboard, marquetry or earth and ash; The latter, in addition to providing rhythm, give his pieces a peculiar luminosity. When he sculpts, Albo uses materials as diverse as wood, glass and stone, often recycled and taken from demolitions, to suggest transparency and solidity, reflections and shadows at the same time.

Finally, it has approached video, again to send us scenarios and moments in which we will have the sensation that reality seems to blur and fiction becomes a possibility; even that multiple moments can converge into a single one.

Aina Albo Puigserver. Dins el paisatge series, 2026. Courtesy of the artist. Photography: David Bonet

In “Interstices” this Mallorcan author, who has already offered individual exhibitions at the Francisco Sobrino Museum in Guadalajara or in galleries such as Pep Llabrés Art Contemporani and the Peruvian Impakto and Now: Gallery, displays pieces that start from the basic and primary gesture of observing sunlight and its effects to explore the possibility of converting that radiation into a way of measuring and writing time.

Each of the collected works is presented as a point of orientation for the viewer, a you are here in the context of an abstract and interior map, rather than a physical one. The spaces between one work and another will constitute those interstices (minimal and almost delicate parentheses between points of light) where the public will be able to consolidate a form of knowledge that is more intuitive than immediate, and always silent and derived from accumulation.

The common thread of this exhibition will be the analemma; for the layman, the figure-eight curve that figuratively records the path of the sun over the course of a year: a writing of light without projection, obviously physical, that serves Albo Puigserver to remind us of the subjective and elusive variable of our perception of time and space. Glass, wood, varnishes and glazes will be his instruments to emphasize that science and intuition modulate our vision and our understanding of natural elements.

The artist has conceived this exhibition as a processual experiment, in which time, in addition to being represented, can be sheltered in matter. As in the analemma, its production insists on the evidence, sometimes forgotten, that time is not linear, but a living curve that is drawn as we observe it.