The contemporary surrealist group exhibition Territories of the Imaginal will open this September at Tang Contemporary Art in Hong Kong. Curated by Jirco, Spanish contemporary art curator, and Sam Yang, it brings together four contemporary artists from Spain and Latin America - Jordi Díaz Alamà, Marcos Lozano, Juan de la Rica, and Alejandro Pasquale.
In an age of escalating informational density, the image has long surpassed language as a primary mechanism for organising reality. Through painting as a spiritual practice, the four artists move between reality and fiction, body and dream, image and consciousness - constructing an open field that examines both the mechanics of vision and the dimensions of the psyche.
While their styles diverge, they share a central premise: the image is no longer a vessel for linear narrative, but a perpetually evolving, drifting, and reinterpretable perceptual structure. Through strategies of composition, symbolism, repetition, and deconstruction, they expand the spiritual boundaries of painting, turning their works into intersections of dream, memory, and myth.
Rather than define a fixed visual grammar, the exhibition seeks to activate the inherent instability of images and the drifting state of the viewer’s psyche. Here, painting is not simply a return to form, but an act of refining, questioning, and reconstructing contemporary experience. Each work serves as a threshold to the mind - inviting us to re-sense the border between consciousness and reality, and to weave a visual mythology of the present.
Jordi Díaz Alamà constructs visual terrains that drift between dream and reality through intense colours and decentralised compositions. Detached from figurative narrative, his works present psychological landscapes at the edge of awareness; space becomes the protagonist, while emotion and light propel the formation of the image. He generates a tension rooted in the subconscious, drawing viewers into a constantly shifting mental topography.
Marcos Lozano, by contrast, revisits Western pictorial traditions with delicacy and restraint. Soft hues and stable compositions create a space between memory and fiction, transforming the image into a projection of psychological structure. His works are not responses to history, but gentle yet profound inquiries into the act of seeing - whispered questions that reveal unnamed visual memories.
Juan de la Rica captures attention with charged colours and a vivid visual language. His static poses and surreal details create a sense of visual suspension; blending comic art with pop aesthetics, he surpasses surface lightness. His humour is precise and restrained, his decorative colours a disguise for deeper meaning - making the act of viewing itself a contested structure, at once coolly analytical and sharply critical.
Alejandro Pasquale leads us into a symbolic realm where nature and dream intertwine. Through a system of masks, vines, and floral motifs, he builds dense, contemplative perceptual spaces where the image becomes a converter of consciousness. His compositions are lucid yet resist definitive interpretation, forming gateways into the subconscious and guiding viewers to slowly navigate symbolic terrain - rethinking the boundaries of perception and being.
Through these rich and complex practices, the exhibition reveals a constantly evolving state of spiritual image-making - not concerned with representing reality, but positioned at the intersection of the visual, the psychological, and the cultural, awakening a renewed awareness of seeing itself.
What they construct is not a recognisable physical world, but a mental landscape generated by the structure of the image - an ever-transforming terrain where dream, memory, and fiction converge into a non-narrative immersive experience. Each painting is an open system: distinct in tone, yet connected across hidden dimensions. Dreams, memory, identity, time - all unfold non-linearly, like ripples activated and reassembled in the viewer’s gaze.
