And this is how I paint my dreams: Quique Zarzamora, Claudia Torán & Jon Amorrortu

Dreams must necessarily be in color. Faced with the debate of whether we dream in black and white, I choose to imagine that I dream in color, because I cannot conceive of any other form of experience. Color is not an addition, but its condition: it gives form to what we feel before we can name it, the essence of beauty and the force through which perception takes shape. At a time when images dematerialize and circulate without resistance, this exhibition proposes a return to the essential: painting as matter, process, and presence. And This Is How I Paint My Dreams brings together three young Spanish artists who understand painting as a living act in constant transformation.

In the work of Jon Amorrortu, the image emerges through layers, fragments, and reconstruction. His “undone realism” proposes a reality in flux, where forms remain open and are continuously reconfigured through the act of painting itself.

Claudia Torán approaches painting as an expanded, sensorial field guided by rhythm and intuition. Moving between the everyday and the surreal, her compositions generate immersive atmospheres in which color operates as both structure and intensity.

In the work of Quique Zarzamora, painting begins before the image, in what lies beneath the visible. His restrained yet deeply active fields of color reveal themselves through proximity and time, unfolding a depth that resists immediate perception.

Across their practices, color becomes a generative force through which painting transforms the dream into a method, allowing the artist to bring into presence what others can only sense or imagine, revealing what was already within us yet unseen, and it is in this recognition that our connection to the work emerges.