CONDITIONS OF PERCEPTION
Paris Giachoustidis, Marcos Juncal, Moritz Moll
Curated by Domenico de Chirico
a66Gallery, Santanyí, Mallorca
Exhibition: 22 September–14 November 2026
Conditions of Perception begins with a reflection on the ways in which reality reveals itself and becomes experience. Rather than seeking a common denominator among the three artists’ markedly different practices, the exhibition focuses on the processes through which reality takes shape. In doing so, it reveals perception as the result of cultural, material and sensory dynamics, closely intertwined with both individual and collective experience. Reality is understood here not as a stable and objective given, but as an open, continuously shifting field in which images, colours, forms, gestures, temporalities and empirical phenomena all contribute to what can appear, be recognised and ultimately be shared.
Before asking what is visible, the exhibition turns its attention to the conditions of visibility – to the complex set of processes through which the world becomes perceptible, takes form and acquires meaning. Perception, in this sense, is not merely a receptive function but a dynamic activity capable of producing meaning. The visible emerges through a continuous negotiation between experience and memory, imagination and context.
In this regard, the thinking of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière is particularly significant. He invites us to consider the visible as the result of a “distribution of the sensible” – the configurations that determine what can be perceived, thought, said and shared within a community. This perspective is linked to the fundamental principle of the equality of intelligences. Emancipation, accordingly, does not consist in the gradual acquisition of knowledge but begins with the recognition of equality as the original condition of every experience and every possibility of interpretation. In this sense, every individual is understood as capable of observing, establishing relationships, interpreting and producing meaning, thereby actively participating in the construction of their own experience within the diversity of the world.
Perception thus becomes an open and shared space in which no single gaze holds absolute privilege and every experience contributes to the continual redefinition of the meaning of images, things, desires, fears and events. It is precisely here that the artistic investigations of Paris Giachoustidis, Marcos Juncal and Moritz Moll begin: three distinct practices that, despite following different paths, simultaneously explore the conditions under which reality takes shape, becomes visible and opens itself to us through experience.
The painting practice of Paris Giachoustidis (Serres, Greece, 1990; lives and works in Berlin) explores how reality is perceived, interpreted and continuously reconstructed. His paintings occupy an unstable threshold between experience and imagination. His compositions bring together the human figure, natural elements and hybrid beings in suspended scenarios in which the familiar and the uncanny coexist in a state of constant tension.
In this new series, the artist develops a body of work that explores the profound connection between human existence and coexistence, our place in the universe and our relationship with nature. At the centre of these scenarios is a living being embedded within a quasi-expressionistic environment, while the recurring presence of the moon and other celestial bodies repeatedly evokes the relationship between humanity and the cosmos.
Ambiguity is central to his work. Oscillating between promise and unease, the paintings offer no definitive answers but invite viewers to develop their own paths of interpretation. Myths and legends are reconsidered from a contemporary perspective – within a context in which the proliferation of both conspiracy theories and disinformation increasingly destabilises the boundary between the concrete and the fictional.
The selection presented in the exhibition follows the journey of a man who is suddenly transported to another planet. Through fragments of this experience – a gloved hand examining an unfamiliar flower, a bird with two noses, or a dance unfolding to a peculiar rhythm – an environment emerges that is at once seductive and unsettling. Attraction and disorientation coexist, opening up an unexpected space for exploration, discovery and creation.
Moritz Moll (Munich, Germany, 1991; lives and works in Munich), by contrast, turns his attention to the interstices of everyday experience: moments of pause, distraction and unexpected concentration in which perception intensifies. Through a precisely calibrated use of colour and line, Moll transforms ordinary objects, bodily postures, suggestions and fragments of personal life into images of great visual density, in which the everyday acquires an almost iconic quality.
His painting is based on a continuous interplay between surface and depth, two- dimensionality and spatial illusion. The result is a visual language in which structure, memory and chromatic sensitivity are held in a constant and dynamic equilibrium.
Clothing, objects and elements drawn from the private sphere become vehicles through which the painterly gesture reworks memory, suspends the time of viewing and enables a heightened perception of the apparent inconspicuousness of everyday life.
Through a different relationship to material and space, Marcos Juncal (Vilaboa, Pontevedra, Spain, 1975; lives and works in Mallorca) shifts this reflection from the pictorial plane to that of the object and sculptural construction. His practice develops through sculpture and assemblage, focusing on the relationship between everyday objects, industrial materials and their surrounding environment.
Models, prototypes and scaled constructions serve as instruments of artistic investigation, intertwining formal experimentation, engagement with sculptural tradition and conceptual reflection. His compositions, often characterised by precarious balances and vertical structures, evoke the fragility of human existence and the continual negotiation between an apparently established stability and transformation that is unpredictable yet ultimately inevitable.
The combination of materials and objects from different temporal contexts creates a dialogue between the present and memory. At the same time, his interest in anthropology and sociology directs his artistic investigation towards a critical examination of the role objects play in constructing collective imaginaries and contemporary cultural dynamics.
Although the practices of the three artists develop in different ways, they share a particular interest in perception as a process through which reality is continuously shaped. The works neither illustrate a definitive thesis nor combine to form a single, unambiguous narrative. Instead, they create a constellation of experiences in which images, materials, forms and colours continually enter into new relationships withone another.
The paintings of Paris Giachoustidis and Moritz Moll, together with the sculpture and assemblage of Marcos Juncal, thus become instruments capable of making visible the conditions through which the world appears to us, changes and gradually acquires meaning.
Conditions of Perception ultimately proposes a reflection on how images, materials, forms and signs participate in the formation of experience. Rather than merely representing reality, the works continually question the conditions under which it appears, demonstrating that every act of perception is inevitably situated, partial and open.
In this sense, the exhibition invites viewers to enter a relational space in which the meaning of the artwork is never fixed once and for all, but instead takes shape through the continuous interplay of different perspectives, experiences and boundless worlds.
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