Pigment Archive

Pigment Archive imagines the studio as a library of colour. Each participant opens their working records and lets the leftovers of the process stand as work.

Ari Valdés shows shelves of jars, test strips and failed panels, arranged by date rather than by quality. The wall reads like a slow diary of hue.

The exhibition argues that what is discarded in the making often explains the finished piece better than the piece itself.