In the work of Esther Gatón, the sensuality of grafting is propagated through her artisanal technique. Disparate materials are brought together, the gaps between them narrowed in a trope-like game of seduction in which organic and osseous forms appear as a reaction to the surroundings, while also being reflected as a stimulus, being placed and assuming their position within a material history of both past and present circumstances. Skin grafting: poetic transplants of marked and reactive material, of speech embodied, and skins that become tropes. Reddened, shiny and wrinkled, with bruises and scars that are infected, contorted and embellished, material surfaces are a simile and hyperbole for what surrounds them.
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Curatorial texts:
Press:
One Hammer Coming Your Way, Feria ARCO, Madrid (ES)
Screening Room, Residency 11:11, London (UK)
Ugly Enemies, accompanied with a text by Benedict Singleton, Cibrián Gallery, Donostia San Sebastian (ES)
Where Water Rumbles, Metalloids, Intersticio, London (UK)
Moss Vychissoise, with Nora Baron, The Ryder, London (UK)
Goldsmiths Degree Show, Ben Pimlott Building 4th floor, London (UK)
SLURP, GLUG, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia (ES)
ARENA, with Ana de Fontecha and Florence Sweeney, Espositivo, Madrid (SP)
Abrigo La Nuca, Galería Aldama Fabre, Bilbao (SP)
Las virtudes, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid (SP)
MANERAS / Oh, how we need a new language to go with our new bodies!, Gextoarte, Bilbao (SP)
Sombra de Ojos with Julián Cruz. Galería Javier Silva, Valladolid (SP)
19 with editorial cientodieciocho, Estudio Mendoza, Madrid (SP)
Tsk with Andrea Beade, Galería h2o, Barcelona (SP)
Descripción de un Estado Físico, cur. Pepe Suárez, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid (ES)
Le Club du Poisson-Lune, cur. Cédric Fauq, CAPC, Bordeaux (FR)
Dialecto, CA2M, Madrid (ES)
You May Come Full Circle, Cibrián, Donostia-San Sebastián (ES)
Trémula, (Esther Gatón’s sculpture was part of the installation show by Javier Cruz), cur. Tania Pardo and Manuel Segade, CA2M, Madrid (ES)
Oculto en la Sombra, Sucediendo en el Margen, Disolviendo la Forma, cur. Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo, Galería Nordés Santiago (ES)
Volver dentro del cuerpo, cur. Marta Echaves, Injuve, Madrid (ES)
La mina de sal – La sed animal, cur. Margot Cuevas, Gisela Chillida, Daniel Moreno, Mónica Panes and Alex Palacín, Art Nou Barcelona (ES)
Un metro y medio, cur. Manuel Segade and Tania Pardo, CA2M, Madrid (ES)
El Resto, cur. Marina Alonso, Pau Cassany, Sofía Enríquez, Dailey Fernández and Inés Hornero, Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (ES)
System Safari, Arebyte Gallery, London (UK)
Down the Rabbit Hole, cur. Daisuke Kato, Madriguera, Madrid (ES)
Pou Sou Nefko Pou Paeis, Koraï Cyprus (CY)
El hecho alegre. Una mecánica popular de los sentidos, cur. Tania Pardo, La Casa Encendida Madrid (SP)
Six Memos, cur. by Branka Bencic, Bridge Gallery in St George Hall, Liverpool (UK)
Dazzling Encounters, cur. by Cristina Herráiz, Sanderson Hotel, London (UK)
The one that´s always there, the one that came late, the one that never arrived, the one that wasn´t invited, SB34-The Pool, Brussels (BE)
Extended Spaces, curated by Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues. Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Rocks radio radar long wave radiation, cur. by Cristina Ramos, The Watch, Berlin (DE)
Mensaje de Arecibo, cur. by D11, Etopía Centro de Arte y Tecnología, Zaragoza (SP)
Circuitos XXIX, cur. by Bernardo Sopelana. Sala de Arte Joven, Madrid (SP)
Six Memos, cur. by Branka Bencic. Labirynt Gallery, Lublin (POL)
SWAB, with Espositivo. Barcelona (SP)
CALL20, Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia (SP)
Six Memos, cur. by Branka Bencic, Sala Las Francesas, Valladolid (SP)
Lo Digerido, cur. by Dalia de la Rosa, Espacio Dörffi, Lanzadore (SP)
No es lo que aparece, Premio Miquel Casablancas Fabra i Coats Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona (SP)
Molto Molto Fuori, Casabanchel, Madrid (SP)
Cardar la lana, Espositivo, Madrid (SP)
Haciendo Días, CENTEX, Valparaíso (CH)
Grasping a Concept is Mastering the Use of a Form, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (SP)
Laboratorio intránsit cartec, Madrid (SP)
Exposición Fronteiras e Estados de Sitio, Biblioteca Río Grande, Brasil (BR)
Creadores Inquietos, Sala Municipal Las Francesas, Valladolid (SP)
Premio Cátedra Árte y Enfermedades, UPV, Valencia (SP)
Janos, The Inmaterial Worker, Centro de arte complutense, Madrid (SP)
Entre el reflejo, Entreacto, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid (SP)
Projectes Germinals, Sala 0 Museo Picasso, Barcelona (SP)
Carne Fresca, El Ranchito, Matadero, Madrid (SP)
Wiels, Brussels (BE)
Generaciones, Madrid (ES)
Veepee Art Price
Art Council Artist Support Grant
Acquisition, CA2M, Madrid (ES)
Art Council, London (UK)
Ayudas a La Creación, Comunidad de Madrid (ES)
Injuve, Madrid (ES)
Sant Andreu Contemporari, Barcelona (ES)
Circuitos de las Artes Plásticas, Madrid (ES)
Sala O Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid (ES)
Premio Cátedra Árte y Enfermedades, UPV, Valencia (ES)
La Trasera, Programa Sin Créditos, Faculty of Arts UCM, Madrid (ES)
The Gym, RAMPA, Madrid (ES)
