Elena Núñez Mallén: ¿En qué puedo pensar ahora?

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Vangar presents, in its space at 22 Pedro III el Grande Street, "¿En qué puedo pensar ahora?" (What Can I Think About Now?), Elena Núñez Mallén's first solo exhibition at the gallery, which will be open to the public from May 9 to June 27, 2025.

Elena Núñez Mallén (Seville, 1998) develops her painting practice based on everyday stimuli that operate as visual triggers. Anecdotal elements and those found in her surroundings activate a working process that transitions between photographic documentation and intuitive exploration. Through the accumulation of images and their reconfiguration, the artist constructs a visual narrative, where the scattered finds new connections. Each work is conceived as an open operation, a search for meaning that articulates the relationship between perception, memory, and desire. Her painting does not reproduce what is observed, but rather transforms it, proposing a sensitive perspective on the everyday.

The title of the exhibition comes from the book The Old Man and the Sea, and takes on a new dimension when transferred to the everyday sphere. For the artist, the question "What can I think about now?" becomes a starting point for exploring thought as a vital practice. Thinking—understood as observing, reflecting, pausing—is a way of inhabiting the present with greater intensity. In this constant exercise, the awareness of being is revealed, but also the possibility of ceasing to be. Far from being a limitation, this hyperawareness becomes a driving force for living more attentively, for making the most of time and valuing the smallest gestures that make up everyday life.