Joaquín Ivars Presents 'eNvolutions' at Galería Isabel Hurley, Málaga

Joaquín Ivars's exhibition at Galería Isabel Hurley in Málaga features artworks created over decades, combined with recent works, unreleased pieces, and non-materialised projects. The show is structured around what Ivars calls 'operative fields'—contingent and dynamic compositions that arise from broader and blurrier origins than the individual works. The installation employs a theatrical, multifocal, sometimes diagrammatic setting, incorporating audiovisual materials, photographs, documents, and graphs, which distorts the clarity of early works and produces less precise, wider-meaning outlines. Ivars describes these as 'eNvolutions,' a term for non-linear, cumulative evolutions oriented toward a multidimensional, indeterminate future. The exhibition setting functions like a jam session, where works are played with improvisationally, referencing the 'adjacent possible' of Stuart Kauffman. Ivars's text also cites Monod and Lorenz's teleonomic concept, McLuhan, Wittgenstein, and his own 2018 book 'El rizoma y la esponja' (Ed. Melusina). The artist rejects fixed positions, slogans like 'less is more,' and the art system's demands, advocating instead for an art of liberty that embraces contingency, commitment, and the unknown. The text was translated by Teresa Soto Tafalla.