Espacio regulador ER #032 2012

Curator: Pablo Rey's "Espacio regulador ER #032," created in 2012, employs acrylic paint to explore, as the title suggests, a regulating space, a contained explosion of layered colour. Editor: It looks like chaotic yarn to me, precariously balanced. There's a horizontal line bisecting the image; a visual tightrope holding all those swirling forms above. Curator: Yes, the line provides that structure, doesn't it? Rey's choice of medium feels quite deliberate. Acrylic allows for those transparent overlays, creating depth within what appears at first glance as a chaotic mass. I think Rey is interested in how our mind tries to make sense, impose order. Editor: Absolutely. The colors—those reds and blues in particular—become intertwined like conflicting emotions perhaps? This jumble echoes the complexities of our psychological spaces. What do you read into the line then? Curator: For me, the line acts as a frontier. Above is chaos, unresolved tensions maybe. Below, the implication of a blankness. The work really evokes that sense of precarious control in life. That feeling where our constructed realities meet raw, ungovernable forces, don’t you think? Editor: I agree, yet the vibrancy feels ultimately celebratory despite that edge of unease, this isn’t simply angst, surely? Perhaps the artist means for this apparent disarray to imply a sense of possibility; there is freedom after all to define these fractal spaces and imagine what lies on each side of that liminal line. Curator: Interesting point. By the way, Pablo Rey uses this strategy to represent something both complex and profound through this combination of what feels unstable and, what feels stabilizing. The overall emotionality and the intentional ambiguity is compelling. Editor: I couldn't agree more. It gives so much food for thought, and also some kind of pleasure just watching those dancing colours, knowing how intentionally this work has been created.