As the artistic energy of spring spreads through the streets of Mallorca, we witness a gathering at Baró Galeria’s space in Palma de Mallorca that pushes the boundaries of textile art. The group exhibition titled “Tirar del Hilo”, which opened in March as part of “Art Palma Brunch 2026”, treats thread not merely as a material, but as a gesture and a metaphor. Curated by Esmeralda Gómez Galera, this selection brings together artists such as Amparo de la Sota, Elisa Pardo Puch, Eugenio Espinoza, Mano Penalva, and Néstor García, creating a space where meaning is unravelled.
The act of “pulling the thread” forms the core philosophy of the exhibition; it symbolises both the beginning of an intuitive process of discovery and the unravelling of established visual, historical, and ideological structures. The exhibition presents textile as an expanded contemporary practice that moves beyond its traditional boundaries, intersecting with painting, assemblage, repetition, and manual gesture. Through painting on fabric, works on paper, stitching, and repetitive structures, the artists bring to the fore the instability of the material and the process itself.
Every work in the exhibition functions as part of a collective fabric that is always ready to be unravelled and reinterpreted. While Baró Galeria’s presentation establishes a balance between the weight of the material and the fragility of form, it also invites the viewer to reflect on whether building a structure or gently undoing it is the more creative act. If your path takes you to Palma these days, there is still time to become part of this open-ended fabric.
In your opinion, what makes an artwork “complete”: its solidity, or — as in the “Tirar del Hilo” exhibition — its fragile and unstable state that remains open to being unravelled and falling apart at any moment?
Final day: 20 May 2026
