Arcadi Ballester (b. 1984, Tarragona) is a visual artist whose practice originates in painting and expands into object and experimental video. He studied Fine Arts in the Basque Country, an experience that remains an important context for his approach to material, form, and space.
His work focuses on the material conditions through which reality is constructed, using repetition and variation as a working method. Recent works incorporate raw materials such as clay, introducing weight, fragility, and resistance into the pictorial surface. His practice engages with imagination and the instability of memory as a generative field for painting. Rather than treating literary references as direct sources, he works through fragments, distortions, and gaps, where recollection and invention merge. Gesture, residue, and transformation remain central elements in this process, shaping a dialogue between image and material. He lives and works in the Maresme, near Barcelona.Selected Exhibitions2026— Fugues i vestigis, Sala Ramon de Capmany, Canet de Mar2025
— XI Premi de Recerca Pictòrica, Torre Vella, Salou2024
— Picnic on the Esplanade, Galería Picnic, Madrid2023
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