Daybreak,
Malva Gallery, Santiago de Chile.
April 9-30, 2026
two-person exhibition with Valentina Díaz.
“Daybreak by Javiera Gómez and Valentina Díaz is an exhibition that explores the boundary between day and night, a phenomenon commonly associated with the drama of sunset—a symbol of endings—but which, in this case, takes on its opposite: the equally transient interplay of light and shadow that signifies beginnings and the sequential origin of all things. At the same time, it is an exhibition that highlights another crucial boundary for all artistic creation: the dialogue between the plastic material and the motif it represents (...).
The pieces that make up the exhibition evoke a ceremonial and contemplative dimension that is difficult to classify or rationalize, linked eminently to the creative act that brings them to life: it is not the mythical manifestation that radiates the faith of a creed, but something more intimate and transparent—the vital time sculpted into the form taken by the objects, the images shaped by the instinct and fixation of two artists and their sense of revelation, through the act of bringing to the present what remained suspended somewhere in the subconscious or in even more unknown realms.”
-Excerpt from the text written by Diego Maureira for the exhibition.
*Read the complete text (spanish only).
Malva Gallery, Santiago de Chile.
April 9-30, 2026
two-person exhibition with Valentina Díaz.
“Daybreak by Javiera Gómez and Valentina Díaz is an exhibition that explores the boundary between day and night, a phenomenon commonly associated with the drama of sunset—a symbol of endings—but which, in this case, takes on its opposite: the equally transient interplay of light and shadow that signifies beginnings and the sequential origin of all things. At the same time, it is an exhibition that highlights another crucial boundary for all artistic creation: the dialogue between the plastic material and the motif it represents (...).
The pieces that make up the exhibition evoke a ceremonial and contemplative dimension that is difficult to classify or rationalize, linked eminently to the creative act that brings them to life: it is not the mythical manifestation that radiates the faith of a creed, but something more intimate and transparent—the vital time sculpted into the form taken by the objects, the images shaped by the instinct and fixation of two artists and their sense of revelation, through the act of bringing to the present what remained suspended somewhere in the subconscious or in even more unknown realms.”
-Excerpt from the text written by Diego Maureira for the exhibition.
*Read the complete text (spanish only).
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