Víctor Cano: Blind Spots

Between system and absence, perception reveals its own instability

Víctor Cano: Blind Spots, February 27th – March 22nd

Opening: February 27th, 17.30

In the Anthropocene, what determines reality not always coincides with what appears. Infrastructures, systems, and structuring logics frequently operate beneath the threshold of visibility, producing tangible effects through dynamics that remain fundamentally unseen.

Víctor Cano’s practice — historically concerned with the limits of perception, the instability of vision, and the emergence of order from apparent chaos — finds here a particularly coherent conceptual framework. The works do not seek to represent the world; rather, they interrogate its conditions of legibility: what withdraws, what escapes, what persists beyond the field of recognition.

Within this perspective, the blind spot does not signify absence, but functions as a device: a space in which visibility reveals its own incompleteness, and perception encounters the conditions that silently structure it.

The exhibition is structured around a group of pre-existing works which, in their coexistence, establish a field of tensions between system, interruption, and perceptual ambiguity. The individual pieces operate less as discrete objects than as variations within an ongoing investigation into the instability of what may be seen, read, or stabilised as form.

Following the principal opening, the project will be extended through a secondary presentation incorporating a work conceived specifically in dialogue with the conceptual framework of the space and its research orientation towards the Anthropocene. This intervention should be understood not as thematic continuation, but as a displacement — a synthetic reformulation of Blind Spots in relation to contemporary regimes of material invisibility and infrastructural logic.

Equally significant is Cano’s pronounced technical and manual capacity, in which material execution is not merely instrumental to the idea but intrinsic to the investigative process itself. Operational precision, control of gesture, and the meticulous construction of surfaces disclose a direct relation between visual thought and technical resolution.

A visual artist and audiovisual producer, Víctor Cano graduated in Fine Arts between the University of Barcelona and the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, where he specialised in image and sound. While his current research is primarily focused on sculptural experimentation, his artistic practice emerges from an inherently multidisciplinary foundation and a perspective oriented towards the universal. His work reflects a sustained engagement with the instability and apparent chaos of the minute, as well as with phenomena that reside at the margins of conscious perception.

Graduating within the context of the pandemic and following his initial exhibition experiences, Cano encountered in uncertainty a productive conceptual and operational space — not only in relation to material production, but also in the gradual formation of his artistic identity. Over the past year, he has re-established his presence within the exhibition circuit with a defined commitment to consolidating his practice within the demanding framework of contemporary art.