Javier de Juan in the Labyrinth: A expositive intervention at Yusto / Giner, Madrid
“Javier de Juan presents at Yusto Giner an expositive intervention that mirrors Madrid itself: dynamic, ephemeral, and perpetually reinventing its own image.”
From Galería Isolina Arbulu, and in collaboration with Galería Justo Giner (Madrid), we present an expositiev intervention by Javier de Juan. This project moves beyond the boundaries of a traditional show to become a living work: one activated in real time through the encounter between artwork, space, and viewer.
For ten days only, the gallery transforms into a condensed, walkable Madrid — layered, simultaneous, folded into itself like a labyrinth. The city becomes the exhibition, and the exhibition becomes an experience to be crossed rather than merely observed. The visitor does not just look; they enter, move, and inhabit the work.
Javier de Juan —painter, visual storyteller, and chronicler of Madrid— constructs this performative exhibition from a premise that underpins his practice: to live is to move. Madrid, incessant and electric, embodies this principle. In his visual language, architecture, light, rhythm, and collective memory merge, revealing a city that draws and erases itself endlessly, reshaping its contours over the traces that precede it.
In this space, Madrid emerges as a labyrinth — intimate yet vast, fixed yet continuously shifting. The viewer becomes both witness and traveler, navigating the work as one navigates a city. Each piece functions as a path, a turn, a pulse within a map in constant revision. Here, ephemerality is not a byproduct; it is the essence.
