Celia Lees is an artist whose practice explores lived experience, memory, and the passage of time through large-scale, expressive painting. Her work channels emotional states and human connection into intuitive compositions, shaped by a strong sensitivity to materiality, texture, and colour, an awareness informed in part by her background in fashion. Rooted in the physical act of mark-making, her paintings reflect an ongoing dialogue between instinct, movement, and embodied experience.
Loosen Your Grip centres on the tension between control and release. Emerging from an impulse to fix and hold things together, the works trace a shift toward recognising the limits of control. Dense, compressed gestures sit alongside more open, minimal areas, creating a rhythm between restraint and letting go. The paintings do not resolve this tension; instead, they remain within it, embracing ambiguity and the discomfort of stepping back. Through this body of work, Lees invites viewers to consider what emerges when control is loosened, and whether there is a quiet strength in allowing things to unfold on their own.

Escat Gallery acoge Una habitació pròpia (Una habitación propia), una exposición colectiva inspirada en el ensayo homónimo de Virginia Woolf (1929), quien aboga por la mujer y la creación desde la independencia y la privacidad que ofrece un espacio propio, libre de las opresiones de un mundo a contrarreloj, materialista y, sobre todo, que excluye a las mujeres de los escenarios culturales. Del 19 de marzo al 16 de mayo de 2026, esta intuición se revisita a través de las voces contemporáneas de Blanca Nieto (Salamanca, España, 1991), Diana Ruban (Kremenchuk, Ucrania, 1999), Iris Sanmartín Dalmau (Barcelona, España, 1996), Alba Fabre (Barcelona, España, 1994) y Suna Imre (Solihull, Reino Unido, 1971).

Escat Gallery Trafalgar presents for the first time a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Júlia Martins Miranda (Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 1989). The exhibition, titled PINDORAMA, opens on March 12 and will be on view through May 2, 2026.

Este mes de enero, Escat Gallery presenta Il Giardino, una exposición individual de Mirko Baricchi (La Spezia, Italia, 1970). La muestra se inaugurará en el espacio de Escat Gallery Sarrià el 15 de enero y podrá visitarse hasta el 28 de febrero de 2026.

Escat Gallery Trafalgar presents Portals Origin of the Void, a solo exhibition by Mexican multidisciplinary artist MAREO (Mareo Rodríguez, Mexico City, 1981), currently based in Barcelona.