The Act of Being Together / Los límites de los posible
2025 | Solo Sculpture Trail | Teruel, ES
Solo Sculpture Trail is an open-air sculpture park featuring works and site-specific installations created in dialogue with the Matarraña landscape, with the monumental natural park of Puertos de Tortosa-Beceite as backdrop.
Starting at winery Venta d’Aubert, Solo Sculpture Trail extends across 3 kilometres of diverse landscapes of vineyards, olive grooves and forests.
“Solo Sculpture Trail presents works that share a critical reflection towards a world in degradation, on the verge of collapse, alongside a group of sculptures that suggest new modes of interaction with the environment, materiality and other forms of life.” – Eva Albarrán and Christian Bourdais.
With Solo Sculpture Trail, artists are invited to create and present works beyond the traditional confines of the gallery, in permanent dialogue with nature. The works call for pause and contemplation and establish a singular ecosystem with the landscape and the visitor, making them participants in these conversations.
Solo Sculpture Trail is located in Solo Houses, Albarrán Bourdais’ collection of avant-garde architecture. With the objective of preserving and promoting the natural beauty of the site, the 200 hectares of Solo Houses also incorporate organic winery Venta d’Aubert, which acts a custodian of the site under regenerative agriculture principles.
The Act of Being Together, 2025
With its large stone blocks, extracted from nearby quarries and left virtually untouched, Jose Dávila’s sculptural group The Act of Being Together alludes to megalithic structures: enigmatic compositions that appear in different cultures as traces of collective occupation. In dialogue with the landscape of Matarraña, the work evokes sculpture before sculpture — the essential act of placing a stone as a sign, a gathering, or a marker of permanence. It connects with the primal gesture of occupying land and relating to matter, highlighting an essentially human dimension in the way we inhabit the world. Through his work, Dávila invites us to reflect on our transient place as part of a vast and infinite expansion — between the end of something ancient and the beginning of something new.
Los límites de lo posible, 2025
In Los límites de lo posible, Jose Dávila approaches the act of placing stones as a primary form of sculpture. Arranged in configurations of tension and apparent instability, the pieces activate a negotiation of forces in direct relation to gravity, which ceases to be an invisible condition and instead becomes an active and present element in the work. Through this interaction between mass, balance, and support, the piece reveals the precarious, the immediate, and the poetic nature of the sculptural gesture.