Aldo Chaparro: Are we still pretending this is not about us?

Known for his explorations of materiality, perception, and the body, Chaparro’s work occupies a space of tension — a liminal zone where matter meets emotion, and form balances between control and surrender. Through a powerful combination of sculpture and painting, the exhibition invites visitors to reconsider their relationship with the world around them, not as distant observers, but as active, entangled participants.

At the heart of the exhibition are Chaparro’s striking totemic sculptures — carved, polished, or fractured metal forms that rise like ancient-futuristic monoliths. These structures embody a dynamic energy: geometric yet unpredictable, grounded yet transcendent. They appear as “living columns”, vibrating with presence, as if drawn from the subconscious yet rooted in physical experience.

More than an exhibition, “Are we still pretending this is not about us?” is a call — to attention, to presence, to recognition. It questions the illusion of separation between ourselves and the environments we inhabit, proposing instead a sensitivity of perception: a way of seeing the world as something of which we are inherently part.