🗓️ On view through November 1, 2025
📍 El Apartamento, Madrid
The Spanish artist duo Los Bravú (Dea Gómez, b. 1989 – Salamanca; Diego Omil, b. 1988 – Pontevedra) invites viewers into the folds of the subconscious with their exhibition Donde el aire es fresco y las flores tiemblan at Madrid’s El Apartamento Gallery. Running from September 11 to November 1, this exhibition, one of the duo’s most comprehensive to date, spans both floors of the gallery, showcasing over 20 works.
Los Bravú’s art creates a space where high and low culture, tradition and digital realms, the sacred and the everyday collide. Drawing from the cultural heritage of Galicia and Castilla, the duo reinterprets folk beliefs, local mythology, and visual symbols through a contemporary lens. Their narrative carries a tone that is simultaneously nostalgic and digital, mystical and critical.
The exhibition immerses viewers in a kind of “blue universe.” Los Bravú’s canvases, reminiscent of glitches in video games, are woven with an imperfect yet captivating aesthetic. Shades of blue evoke both the divine hues of the Renaissance and the cold glow of a screen, forming a threshold where prayer meets digital code, and the sky merges with the monitor.
While their figurative style presents seemingly familiar scenes, each painting functions like a laboratory, exploring how culture is produced, meaning is constructed, and the images of our era multiply. Text and imagery, defying traditional compositional rules, become interwoven codes in constant dialogue.
The duo’s new works blend the aesthetics of the ’90s with the fragile texture of the digital age; here, the glitch is not merely an error but a void where creativity is born. This approach situates Los Bravú within the post-conceptual lineage of contemporary art, questioning language, technology, and cultural systems.
Curator Luis Sicre describes the exhibition as “a reminder that everything human is doomed to decay, yet the imagination endures.”
Donde el aire es fresco y las flores tiemblan guides viewers through a blue dream and along the precipice of the cultural subconscious, creating a space where, beyond all destruction, the power to imagine persists.
