Cabello/Carceller: the gray room stage 1

The Grey Room: Scenario 1 is the new exhibition by Cabello/Carceller that can be visited at the Prats Nogueras Blanchard gallery in Barcelona. The exhibition takes as its starting point the colour grey, often considered as complementary to itself in colour theory. This hue, with its infinite range of nuances, serves as a metaphor for exploring concepts such as melancholy, identity and dissidence. According to the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, the painter Paul Cézanne stated that "until you have painted a grey you are not a painter", suggesting that the mastery of grey is essential in art.

Cabello/Carceller use grey to represent melancholy as a state of mind that reflects the feeling of being trapped between an uncertain future and a longed-for past. This melancholy is also a space for reflection on the violence that threatens dissident and minority bodies, as well as on the need to find new forms of resistance. Melancholy, therefore, is not a passive state here, but a gesture of subversion, a pause that allows us to question dominant narratives and imagine new forms of existence. The artists also address the indiscipline of melancholy, its uselessness in a hyperactive environment, as an opportunity to critically analyze today's society. This ambivalent position allows us to question the mechanisms of subjection that shape identity, recognizing that the subject emerges crossed by these mechanisms and that there is no way out if we are not able to bet on the game.

Futuro: Itinerario #1, Cabello/Carceller (2001)

The concept of the grey room is understood here as a symbolic space where the boundaries between presence and absence are blurred, creating a territory where identity is constructed from nuances and contradictions. Cabello/Carceller play with this idea to explore the tensions between visibility and invisibility, as well as the power structures that condition the way we perceive ourselves and are perceived. Through installations, video and text, the exhibition, which can be visited from March 25 to May 24, opens a space for dialogue where the colour grey becomes the main protagonist and a tool for redefining the limits of representation and identity.

Cabello/Carceller, formed by Helena Cabello (Paris, 1963) and Ana Carceller (Madrid, 1964), are known for questioning the roles and stereotypes associated with gender. Their work reflects on the construction of identity in relation to the social, cultural, political and economic environment, subverting images and codes of behavior to destabilize the vision we usually have of reality.