12.05.22 –
25.06.22
The Waiting
"The Waiting is based on a sensation I had on a journey. From a monotonous state, a feeling of vitality arose that took me out of the repetition and automatism of everyday life. The production of the exhibition has been a state of waiting, an anxious contention to find a vital outburst again, a working in a direction with the conviction that at some point it will happen again."
We are very happy to present The Waiting the first solo project by Elisa Pardo Puch (Madrid, 1988) at Pradiauto. The exhibition presents a selection of recent works and includes installation, watercolour drawing, ceramics and patchwork.
At the same time as this exhibition offers a panoramic view of the techniques and motifs already characteristic of her work, in The Waiting a new formal language opens up, a lurking and unpredictable aesthetic outbreak. The grid is filled with honeysuckle, meandering forms peep out, between chains there are vibrant fruits, the cube explodes and drips. In the face of repetition, an anxious force that tries to escape from it. In the face of the weft, like the structure of a fabric that takes shape over time, the explosion that breaks it. Against the comfort of the domestic, a wild irruption. We witness, in The Waiting, the birth of a kind of contrastetics - an internal revolution that alters its own code, an opposing flow that integrates itself, from the root, to continue to open up meaning.
We are very happy to present The Waiting the first solo project by Elisa Pardo Puch (Madrid, 1988) at Pradiauto. The exhibition presents a selection of recent works and includes installation, watercolour drawing, ceramics and patchwork.
At the same time as this exhibition offers a panoramic view of the techniques and motifs already characteristic of her work, in The Waiting a new formal language opens up, a lurking and unpredictable aesthetic outbreak. The grid is filled with honeysuckle, meandering forms peep out, between chains there are vibrant fruits, the cube explodes and drips. In the face of repetition, an anxious force that tries to escape from it. In the face of the weft, like the structure of a fabric that takes shape over time, the explosion that breaks it. Against the comfort of the domestic, a wild irruption. We witness, in The Waiting, the birth of a kind of contrastetics - an internal revolution that alters its own code, an opposing flow that integrates itself, from the root, to continue to open up meaning.
Elisa Pardo Puch
Elisa Pardo Puch (1988, Madrid). After completing her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at the UCM at the CES Felipe II in Aranjuez in 2014, she obtained a Master's Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2017. Previously, in 2010, she completed her Higher Studies in Design at the Escuela de Arte no10 in Madrid, and in 2009, she was the beneficiary of an Erasmus scholarship at the École Duperré in Paris.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Metal Heart: lo que pesa’ at Departamento, Bilbao; ‘Bajo el cielo de la noche’ at Boiler Room, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; and ‘A Strange Fairytale’ at Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander; or ‘La Espera’, also with Pradiauto, in Madrid. In addition, her work has been part of various group exhibitions, such as the group presentation of the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2023 in Barcelona; ‘Malas Hierbas’ at CasaBanchel, Madrid, in 2024; ‘Una exposición oral’ at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; and ‘Garden Shed’ at Villa Bergerie, in Huesca, in 2023, among others.
Elisa Pardo Puch has also participated in various artistic residencies, such as the current one at GlogauAIR, Berlin, from January to June 2024, where she created the work for the exhibition Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas; the Residency at Villa Bergerie, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Huesca, 2023; Artist in Residence Munich, 2022; or the Matadero Artist Residency Programme. CRA Matadero, Madrid, 2020. Pardo Puch has received numerous awards such as the Miquel Casablancas Prize (finalist), Barcelona, 2023; Acquisition Prize at Nada Sobra, Nebrija University, Madrid, 2017; and Special Mention at Getxoarte, Bilbao, 2016.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Metal Heart: lo que pesa’ at Departamento, Bilbao; ‘Bajo el cielo de la noche’ at Boiler Room, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; and ‘A Strange Fairytale’ at Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander; or ‘La Espera’, also with Pradiauto, in Madrid. In addition, her work has been part of various group exhibitions, such as the group presentation of the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2023 in Barcelona; ‘Malas Hierbas’ at CasaBanchel, Madrid, in 2024; ‘Una exposición oral’ at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; and ‘Garden Shed’ at Villa Bergerie, in Huesca, in 2023, among others.
Elisa Pardo Puch has also participated in various artistic residencies, such as the current one at GlogauAIR, Berlin, from January to June 2024, where she created the work for the exhibition Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas; the Residency at Villa Bergerie, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Huesca, 2023; Artist in Residence Munich, 2022; or the Matadero Artist Residency Programme. CRA Matadero, Madrid, 2020. Pardo Puch has received numerous awards such as the Miquel Casablancas Prize (finalist), Barcelona, 2023; Acquisition Prize at Nada Sobra, Nebrija University, Madrid, 2017; and Special Mention at Getxoarte, Bilbao, 2016.