SHADOWS OF REPETITION

VILLAZAN is pleased to present "SHADOWS OF REPETITION: A Collective Exploration of Minimalism, Reflection, and Pattern” at VILLAZAN Madrid and VILLAZAN Project Space.

March 6 - May 10, 2025

Repetition is never mere duplication, it is transformation. In "SHADOWS OF REPETITION", three distinct voices: Soonik Kwon, Yayoi Kusama, and Carlos García intertwine through a shared fascination with iteration, reflection, and the tension between presence and absence.

Kusama’s infinite polka dots dissolve the boundaries between self and environment, evoking both obsessive control and limitless expansion. Her mirrored surfaces extend this repetition into infinity, blurring the line between reality and illusion. Carlos García’s geometric sculptures, particularly from his Geometry of Thought series, introduce another form of repetition, one rooted in structure, order, and the interplay between light and shadow. His forms echo the legacy of minimalism while introducing a dynamic sense of movement and instability. Meanwhile, Soonik’s work engages with repetition through subtle shifts in form, material, and perception, inviting the viewer to consider the ephemeral and the enduring within seriality.

The exhibition draws from minimalist and conceptual traditions, where repetition is not an end in itself but a means of exploring deeper questions: When does a pattern become a rhythm? When does reflection become dissolution? Inspired by thinkers like Gilles Deleuze, who saw repetition as a force of difference rather than sameness, and artists like Donald Judd and Agnes Martin, who used seriality to evoke transcendence, "SHADOWS OF REPETITION" invites us to see beyond uniformity into the spaces where shadows flicker, forms shift, and meaning emerges.

While each of these artists engages with repetition in distinct ways, Soonik through Buddhist meditation, Kusama through obsessive infinity, and García through geometric thought, they all reveal that repetition is never neutral. It is a force that can be grounding or destabilizing, meditative or overwhelming, structural or fluid. In "SHADOWS OF REPETITION", these perspectives intertwine, prompting the question. Is repetition a prison or a path? Through their works, we glimpse the tension between recurrence and change, between pattern and deviation, between shadow and light.