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Within the framework of Art Nou Nova Visió – Festival of Emerging Art of Barcelona and Hospitalet de Llobregat, Carla Cascales presents the exhibition “Like a Spring” at the SENDA gallery. The show includes a series of unpublished ceramics and large-format paintings that explore the concept of impermanence, celebrating the random, fortuitous, and spontaneous. Cascales’ work proposes a holistic view of the world, in which human beings and their environment are connected and in constant flow.

The paintings presented in the exhibition display soft color transitions, encompassing a palette of warm tones such as reds, ochres, and browns. These abstract works evoke a sense of movement and fluidity, capturing the essence of a spring that bursts forcefully from the earth. The paintings represent the immensity and the ungraspable, reflecting the influence of the sea and Mediterranean culture in her work.

Alongside the paintings, the exhibition includes a series of new ceramics that reflect the same philosophy. The sculptures, with their organic shapes and varied textures, link to antiquity, heritage, and all that is primitive and ancestral in archaic Mediterranean cultures. Additionally, the influence of Eastern currents, especially Japanese philosophy and aesthetics, is manifested in the idea of imperfection, impermanence, and transience, elements that are reflected in the surfaces and forms of the ceramics.