BUENAVENTURA

Seleka’s work unfolds as an act of celebration. Buenaventura, the title of this solo exhibition, is also a statement of intent: fortune as a way of life, joy as a mode of being in the world. After a month-long stay in Lima, the Seville-born artist presents a body of paintings shaped by immersion, contemplation, and play—works in which his visual language expands freely and without restraint. In his paintings, each gesture of color seems driven by a fortunate spirit, by a tangible sense of gratitude—one that doesn’t ignore the complexity of its surroundings, but chooses nonetheless to affirm the possibility of beauty. There is an optimism here that resists naïveté; it’s a deliberate stance—a conscious choice in the face of a harsh reality. His is a generous, exuberant aesthetic, yet never self-indulgent. The works gathered in Buenaventura condense a lived experience: forms that gather and disperse, layers that overlap like an urban palimpsest, textures that evoke intervened walls, erased tags, traces that tread over one another without erasing what came before. The surface becomes a site of ongoing construction, a space where what emerges coexists with what once was, and where time reveals itself through strata of color. Throughout this process, Seleka’s painting is never static. It is painting of the present—of immediate gesture, of channeled energy. His compositions are not closed or calculated images; they are visual intuitions, impulses that reflect a way of seeing the world with openness and curiosity. His practice holds a deep trust in the act of making—a trust that is almost childlike, in the best sense: like someone who plays without fear of being wrong, fully immersed in the experience.