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Pepo Salazar Lacruz
"POINT RELAIS"
Pols, Valencia, ES
Feb 28th - May 17th, 2026
Curated by: Carles Àngel Saurí, Maria Domenech, Néstor García, Empar Polanco and Miguel Rubio
Photos: David Zarzoso, courtesy of the artist
and Pols, Valencia
"Point Relais is a reconfiguration operation in which the artist, Pepo Salazar Lacruz, develops a series of sculptural exercises of unresolved and fragmentary forms. From the fragment, a play of insinuations takes effect, inviting the public/reader/viewer to reconstruct the totality of the object. In Point Relais, the fragment acts as a vector that materially inscribes a historical structure through apparently neutral gestures.
The wrappers insist on an interface logic: packaging precedes the object (and exceeds its use). Reduction reaches its most literal degree in the compositions of chip bag corners, where the instructions “open here” or “easy-to-open” persist. These formulas design our gesture and regulate our actions, demand an already learned choreography; a series of repeated movements that naturalise certain postures. Relations are bounded, akin to the mechanisms of abstraction of capital — capable of converting networks of social relations into autonomous signs such as money or brands. Yet in the repetition and decontextualisation operated by the artist, that regulatory function is suspended.
The traffic signs remain, but they no longer return instructions. Even so, they do not stop proposing a rhythm. They theatricalise their presence now that they have ceased to be reflective. They have stopped offering a clear solution and from this negative position, they operate. In doing so, they disengage from universal standardisation. The rhythm is marked by a course of variations and repetitions. Salazar Lacruz articulates this through his creative process; when he approaches comfort and glimpses a recognisable code, he changes the pattern. This erratic trajectory could be told through a road trip — at dusk, the car headlights present the traffic signs to you in the most scenic way. They maintain a tempo, that of appearance, but now they answer nothing." (excerpt from the exhibition text)
![Pepet: Dotze passos@pepet.cc @david_zarzosoEl 1957 s’inicia a València el pla de cobertura definitiva de les sèquies urbanes, un procés llarg que té l’origen en l’expansió posterior a l’enderrocament de les muralles el 1865 i en les lògiques higienistes i racionalistes de l’urbanisme vuitcentista. Durant segles, les sèquies havien complert una doble funció: sistema de reg i xarxa de sanejament urbà. La reutilització de les aigües residuals, juntament amb els fangs, aportava nutrients valuosos a l’agrosistema medieval i generava una relació d’interdependència que beneficiava alhora la ciutat i el territori.Aquest equilibri es va anar debilitant fins que, amb l’Avantprojecte de millora del sanejament de València (Pla Sud, 1968), es dissenyà una xarxa de col·lectors que desvinculava definitivament el reg dels desguassos urbans, arran dels problemes ambientals causats pels abocaments. El geògraf Roland Courtot descrigué aquesta transformació com el pas “de l’horta al voltant de la ciutat a la ciutat al voltant de l’horta”. Altres veus, però, parlen més aviat d’un trànsit d’una ciutat “a l’horta”, integrada en fluxos mutus, a una ciutat “sobre l’horta”, desplegada sobre un paisatge històric cada cop més residual.Fragment del text de sala[Néstor García i Empar Polanco]](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6758413519132267316661_0_bba090ee2198a65a1962f08f3a6daebe.jpg?o=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&h=59fa51c35eaf2d2ca4cced156cfc8fca)
