GROUP EXHIBITION

There is a way of looking at the world that seems to belong to winter and yet persists long beyond this season. It’s Always Winter Somewhere is based on the idea that winter is not merely a fleeting moment, marked by a beginning and an end, but a feeling that remains and transcends our own perception of time.

While nature flourishes in one part of the world, snow covers the landscape in another. The seasons thus coexist simultaneously, following the rhythm of a planet in which winter never entirely disappears, but transforms according to the place and the perspective from which it is seen.

Through the works of Jon Koko, Johanna Bath, Hiroki Kawanabe, Klas Ernflo, Miranda Pastor and Hugo Alonso, the exhibition brings together different sensibilities that find in contemplation, memory and imagination a shared way of relating to winter. A gaze that remains within us, latent, as a way of inhabiting the world that accompanies us throughout the year.

Hugo Alonso’s landscapes lie between reality and fiction. Snow and silence suggest absent presences and imagined events, creating unsettling scenes in which what has disappeared continues to leave its mark.

In Johanna Bath’s work, nostalgia and melancholy coexist with an inner light that withstands the passing of the seasons. Her images convey a delicate and luminous energy, evoking that invincible summer which, in Albert Camus’s words, remains alive within us even in the midst of winter.

For Klas Ernflo, winter evokes memories of a childhood connected to the Swedish landscape, filled with snowy days and outdoor activities. However, his favourite moments were those spent in the warmth of home, sheltered from the cold and immersed in doing crafts.

In Hiroki Kawanabe’s work, winter emerges through the beauty of everyday, unrepeatable moments. With an essential gaze and a practice that embraces imperfection, the artist captures fleeting moments and transforms them into lasting images, open to the emotions and memories of each viewer.

In Jon Koko’s landscapes, winter becomes a space for contemplation and memory. Through serene landscapes, soft colours and everyday scenes, the artist creates places suspended between experience and imagination, where stillness becomes a subtle form of presence.

In Miranda Pastor’s work, the gaze moves between domestic interiors and the outside world, observed through a window or through cameras installed in the forest. In the latter, animals appear unexpectedly in the silence of the winter. Her images thus reveal a latent life unfolding beyond our immediate perception.

It’s Always Winter Somewhere brings together different perspectives on winter and the landscapes that inhabit our memory. For while one season comes to an end somewhere, elsewhere it is only just beginning, reminding us that there are always other ways of looking at and imagining the world.