The project "The Substance of Being", curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, brings together a selection of young Spanish artists around an analysis of the latest trends in Conceptual Art. The curator draws attention to new artistic proposals through the work of Álvaro Chior, Bisíla Noha, Christian Lagata, Esther Gatón, Fuentesal Arenillas, Iñaki Domingo, Jimena Kato, Kiko Pérez and Tamara Arroyo.

The main focus of the exhibition is to reflect on the strategies of conceptual dismantling and personal exploration developed by these artists when questioning the essential aspects of human existence. The curator makes visible a type of practice that insists on the crossover between different fields of knowledge such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Architecture, Design, and Linguistics; that crosses different media or artistic languages and explores the possibilities of the art-object as a new type of historical archive; that focuses on the abstraction of fundamental concepts for contemporary culture and, at the same time, revises our notions of the abstract from a poetic approach. This allows us to venture into the enunciation of concepts such as post-conceptualism and post-abstraction. The exhibition also reveals the cultural concerns and socio-political obsessions of the new generations of Spanish artists.

Omar López-Chahoud, independent curator based in New York (USA). He is Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art (Miami Beach, Florida, USA) since its founding in 2012. He is International Director of Y.ES Contemporary - The Robert S. Wennett and Mario Cader-Frech Foundation. As an independent curator he has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally. He has participated in curatorial panel discussions at Artists' Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1 and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Lopez-Chahoud holds Master of Fine Arts degrees from Yale University School of Art and the Royal Academy of Art in London.