CURRENT EXHIBITION

ENTRE CLAROS - MARÍA CONEJO

JUNE - JULY 2025

Entre Claros is a piece inspired by María Zambrano’s book Claros del Bosque. It unfolds like an expandable landscape, drawn on ceramic mosaics, where female bodies walk through the thicket. They are not seeking to reach any particular place. They are not pursuing a promise of light. They walk because walking is a gesture of resistance, a ritual act of opening oneself to the enigma. The forest—with its overflowing vegetation and ancestral architecture of intertwined trunks—offers itself as a symbolic territory, a space of transit and transformation. In Zambrano’s poetic philosophy, the “clearings” are not goals but irruptions: moments of revelation that emerge when thought surrenders to the invisible. But here, the clearing has not yet appeared. It remains hidden, dormant, like knowledge that refuses to be mastered. The walkers advance without a map, embodying a non-linear relationship with time and knowledge. They do not seek the clearing: they inhabit it in potential, as they pass through the shadows.

“The clearing in the forest is not sought, it is found; and it is the forest itself that decides when to open up,” writes Zambrano. This work is part of that active waiting, that listening to the world and the body that is deeply feminine and political. Because in a world that demands certainties, productivity, and permanent light, Entre claros vindicates not knowing, slowness, and intuition as forms of wisdom. Crossing the forest is neither escape nor conquest: it is remaining in the question. It is letting mystery guide one’s steps.Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz