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.

Originally trained as an architect, Dávila translates the fundamental principles of drawing and construction into three-dimensional space, highlighting the physical mechanisms that allow objects to sustain themselves and occupy a place in the environment. His interest in megalithic structures – including the Talayotic structures of Menorca – connects his practice with primary gestures of occupation of the territory and observation of the cosmos, underlining an essentially human dimension in the way we relate to matter.

In his work Dávila embodies artistic and architectural elements appropriated and recontextualized from iconic artists throughout history, and by so doing he reflects on the definition of conceptual art namely that it is the content and not the form what gives importance and meaning to a work of art. Through his practice, Dávila investigates aspects such as space, volume, balance and materiality, which are all an example of physical force, creating works whose shape is in constant conversation with art history.

Known for his works that explore precarious balance, Jose Dávila materializes universal forces of nature and physical phenomena such as gravity and equilibrium. By creating unexpected encounters between materials—concrete, marble, wood, glass, stone—where human intervention appears through straps holding his installations together, the artist explores the dichotomies of nature and humanity, solidity and fragility, stability and uncertainty, reality and imagination, permanence and impermanence over time.

The exhibition’s title, Las piedras saben dormir (Stones Know How to Sleep) thus resonates as a poetic metaphor for quiet resignation to the greater, universal forces of the natural world.

Physics of Uncertainty examines the ways in which material forces interact with one another, exploring the tension between stability and collapse. The work focuses on the subtle dynamics of balance, gravity, and fragility—forces that resist predictability and control. At the core of this exhibition is an ongoing investigation into the structural principles that underpin both physical reality and metaphor. Gravity, while a fundamental force, also serves as a symbol of tension and limits, framing the exploration of human vulnerability and impermanence.

Almine Rech Paris, Turenne is pleased to present ‘Half Empty, Half Full,’ Jose Dávila’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

The artist’s titles are enigmatic and sometimes tinged with humor, already invoking the polysemy that is inseparable from reality with its inherent contradictions. This exhibition is about measure, with its title, ‘Half Empty, Half Full,’ embodying an irresolvable statement making it possible for two opposites to coexist.

Material density, gravity, and time are central to most of Jose Dávila’s practice. Known for sculptures that explore different balances created by opposing forces, Dávila has created a work for Desert X 2025 that spans both space and time. The marble blocks used in this piece are unaltered extractions from a quarry a few hundred miles across the U.S.–Mexico border.

This exhibition, Dávila’s first full-scale exhibition in a Japanese museum, will feature a painting and prints from Albers’ Homage to the Square, alongside works by Dávila based on this series. The exhibition will show Albers’ exploration of form and color, which has fascinated people throughout the ages as well as Dávila’s challenge to create new art through conversation with the art history.