Collective 62, together with guest gallery Lateral
@lateral_galeria , invite you to the opening of the exhibition Here You Are Now.
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Participating artists:
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Ruth Lastra
@diga.ruth
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Vero Pasman
@veropasman
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Florencia Peña
@fabricsofcolours
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Hettler.Tüllmann
@hettler.t üllmann
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Opening Reception: Sunday, April 12th, 11 to 2 pm
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This exhibition brings together four women practitioners whose backgrounds in architecture, graphic design, textile design, and visual art converge around a shared concern: the experience of the journey and the act of locating oneself in the present.
Architecture operates here not only as a discipline, but as a way of thinking. To build is to trace a path, to make decisions, to leave marks of what has been traversed in order to arrive somewhere. Each practice reflects a personal route shaped by movement, transformation, and time. The works do not speak from a fixed sense of belonging, but from motion: from the space between where one comes from and where one stands now.
Maps, plans, and spatial thinking appear both literally and conceptually. Like the familiar “You are here” marker, the exhibition proposes the present moment as a point of convergence, where past experience and future intention intersect. This emphasis on here and now is not static; it is an active state of awareness, shaped by accumulated decisions, detours, and encounters.
Light and shadow, material and surface, structure and intuition coexist across the works. Whether through constructed space, visual mapping, textile language, or abstract gesture, each artist articulates a way of inhabiting the present while acknowledging the path that led there.
Seen together, the exhibition becomes a shared territory: a mid-distance journey where individual trajectories meet. It is a space for exchange, learning, and presence, affirming that the present is not an endpoint, but a living site where memory and possibility remain in dialogue. We are here, now.
