The Bernier/Eliades Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Martina Quesada in Brussels, “If This Is a Space”. The opening will take place on Thursday, September 4, 2025, from 17:00 to 21:00 during Rendez Vous – Brussels Art Week and in the presence of the artist. Upon this occasion, the Gallery will have extended opening hours from Friday, September 5 until Sunday, September 7, 2025, from 11:00 to 18:00. Martina Quesada’s practice encompasses sculpture, installation, and video, challenging the boundaries of materiality, perception, continuity, and spirituality.

For this exhibition, the artist has created a series of artworks that function as a visual synthesis distanced from any narrative structures, yet consistent with an internal order. The body comprising wall sculptures and works on paper is to be perceived as a system of interrelated forms. Repetition, variation, and spatial arrangement—across both sculptural and pictorial media—generate a quiet yet intentional rhythm.

Quesada’s works engage with tensions between material presence and symbolic suggestion, visibility and withholding. Geometric forms are treated not as fixed compositions, but as propositions—flexible structures that allow for shifts in perception. The use of pigment on paper introduces a more atmospheric register, extending the sculptural language into the pictorial. Rather than occupying space in a conventional sense, her works aim to activate it as a site of resonance. They do not seek to impose meaning but instead establish a set of conditions through which meaning may emerge.

Martina Quesada (b. 1987) lives and works in Paris. She is a self-taught artist whose practice has developed through sustained, hands-on study with master artisans and material specialists. Her research has taken her across Latin America and Europe, including in-depth work with ceramicists and chromists dedicated to traditional pigment-making techniques in Peru and Mexico. Quesada has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in London, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Lima. Her work is held in both institutional and private collections, including the MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires and the MALI – Museum of Art of Lima. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at MACBA, opening in November 2026.