Juan Garcia Couder

ROMA 🇮🇹 “Atto 2/3: Col Tempo”. A project curated by @bigaignon_ presented in collaboration with @rhinocerosroma Open until January 14th! Incredibly honoured to share space with Harold Feinstein, Yannig Hedel, Hideyuki Ishibashi, Lab(Au), Morvarid K, Fernando Marante, Chris McCaw, Thomas Paquet, Olivier Ratsi and Charles Xelot.

One month of summer light in “Urdir: Convivencias”, curated by @luciacaballo in Casa de Vacas @madrid Clepsydrae, 2024, 31x31x6cm.

Opening weekend at the Vintage Foto Festival. “Clepsydra: Uadi” is currently on view at the Gallery of Modern Art in Bydgoszcz, until October 19th. @vintagephotofestival

Hi there! I’m Juan Couder (@juancouder ), a Spanish artist based in Paris, taking over the Bristol Folk House Darkroom this week. My work often explores the vulnerability of the photographic medium through process-driven projects. Lastly, in “Witness”, photography is used as an ephemeral site specific intervention and its periodic recording. This series focuses on the transitions of the seasons, covering specific windows with photographic emulsion that constantly react to sunlight and humidity. Changing in density and color over time, the work explores the transparency and opacity of the photographic gaze, as well as a way of imagining ourselves inhabiting the very act of photography. Both a window-to-the-world and a mirror-of-the-self, Witness explores what might be a gaze interwoven with the world, since observing, is never a passive act.

Hi there! I’m Juan Couder (@juancouder ), a Spanish artist based in Paris, taking over the Bristol Folk House Darkroom this week. My work often explores the vulnerability of the photographic medium through process-driven projects. “Uadi” [وادي] is an Arabic term used to refer to a seasonal river that remains dry for extended periods of time, a landscape shaped by traces left by water, and its idiosyncratic absence. For this series I collected water samples every 7 days, and used them to erase the cyanotypes that I had done on the glass plates. Each week, the prints disappeared in contact with the water, letting a new ‘image’ begin. With a focus on the repetition and disappearance of the process, the Uadi series is conceived to be immediately erased: a performance that restarts with the photograph.

Hi there! I’m Juan Couder (@juancouder ), a Spanish artist based in Paris, taking over the Bristol Folk House Darkroom this week. My work often explores the vulnerability of the photographic medium through process-driven projects. In 2020, an encounter with a waterfall initiated a series of explorations into photography's vulnerable materiality and its relationship with time. Clepsidrae, 2024, is part of this research, whose name references an ancient Egyptian instrument used to measure time by observing water flow. Inspired by these timepieces, I developed a decanting process using cyanotype photographic emulsion. The work explores photography as a body vulnerable to time, presenting objects that transform according to the ambient light conditions. Thus, the pieces expose the beauty of a fluctuating world, fossilized in object form, a human resistance to constant change. Composed of a sequence of small-format pieces, the installation plays with the hidden, the opaque, and the transparent, inviting the viewer to reflect on the ephemeral and the uncontrollable.

Hi there! I’m Juan Couder (@juancouder ), a Spanish artist based in Paris, taking over the Bristol Folk House Darkroom this week. My work often explores the vulnerability of the photographic medium through process-driven projects. In 2020, an encounter with a waterfall sparked a series of explorations into photography as an ephemeral time measuring device. The project, Clepsydra, takes its name from an ancient Egyptian water clock that gauged time by the steady flow of water from a vessel. Inspired by these early timekeepers, I developed a series of unfixed cyanotype works using processes of dripping, sedimentation, and crystallisation. Over time, Clepsydra has developed through various chapters, each proposing a unique balance between resistance and acceptance within photographic practice—suggesting that permanence in photography is not an inherent property, but a human effort loaded with meaning.

Open studio! Viernes 6 y sábado 7 abrimos puertas con motivo de la semana del arte. Escríbenos si necesitas programar visitas privadas fuera de ese horario. ✨

Now open! “Atto 2/3: Col Tempo”. A project curated by @bigaignon_ presented in collaboration with @rhinocerosroma in the heart of Rome. Incredibly honoured to share space with Harold Feinstein, Yannig Hedel, Hideyuki Ishibashi, Lab(Au), Morvarid K, Fernando Marante, Chris McCaw, Thomas Paquet, Olivier Ratsi and Charles Xelot. Many thanks to @bigaignon_ @ani_smbati @violettaveronica @rhinocerosroma

Te invitamos el próximo 1 de noviembre, a las 18:00 h, a la inauguración de “Una ruina ordenada”, una muestra colectiva que reúne a: @alberto_franco_diaz @anadaganzo Cláudio Garrudo @josefinacruzatf @juancararroyo4 @juancouder Una exposición que habla del equilibrio inestable: la belleza de lo que aún no se decide, de lo que cambia sin pedir permiso. 📍 Flúmina · c/ Doctor Benito Hernando 12, Guadalajara (España) 🗓️ 1 de noviembre · 18:00 h #artists #abstractart #fineart #kunst #abstract #artgallery #aesthetics #finearts #Flumina #EspacioFlumina #Exposición #ArteContemporáneo #Arte #Colectiva #Guadalajara #ContemporaryArt #ArtExhibition #VisualArt #ArtSpace #ArtCollector #ArtGallery #ArtGallerys

A glimpse of change. One month of summer light. From the exhibition “Urdir: Convivencias”, curated by @luciacaballo in collaboration with gallery @riomenaka and the city of @madrid 12 Clepsydrae, 2024, 31x825x6cm.

Last days! Up in Casa de Vacas until Sunday 31st. Open every day from 10h to 21:30h. Installation shots from the exhibition “Urdir: Convivencias”, curated by @luciacaballo in collaboration with gallery @riomenaka and the city of @madrid 12 Clepsydrae, 2024, 31x825x6cm.