The exhibition “PY43 – Órigo” originates from an apparently minimal element: a code. PY43, the identifier of ochre in the Colour Index International, refers to one of the oldest pigments used by humankind, a primary material that traverses both geological and cultural time while preserving its presence intact.

Within this context, painting does not present itself as representation, but as a surface of deposition. The works take shape as stratified fields, in which the mark does not merely construct an image in the traditional sense, but emerges as trace, as residue, as the surfacing of a non-linear memory. The pictorial matter comes to the surface within space and thus becomes a site of accumulation, where time itself narrates its history.

The reference to stratigraphy is therefore not metaphorical, but structural. As in geological processes, each visual layer preserves and at the same time transforms what precedes it, generating a depth that is not illusionistic, but real. The surface presents itself as a section, as a cut through time, making visible a sedimented temporality composed of continuities and interruptions.