CRADLING RUIN
A dialogue between the artists @kiah.celeste & @elivanestrada , Matter, time, and balance are the elements through which this dialogue is constructed

@kiah.celeste (b.1994, Brooklyn, NY)
Forages for materials that speak to her. Her practice consists of a few components, to which Celeste often incorporates a motif to establish a visual cadence of repetition, balance, motion and variation. Her free-standing work includes almost exclusively discarded or secondhand items, and minimal hardware, creating something new and fortuitous from decay.

By asserting the cruciality of sustainability, Kiah’s work negates the gratuitous nature of buying new, synthetic materials only to enter into inevitable disorder over time. Although these works are made with primarily synthetic, industrial and household materials, the forms they take on allude the organic, the surreal and non-function. She often challenges physics, with compositions which carefully balance through tension, weight, flexibility and gravity. These texturally rich compositions highlight the inherent beauty of the objects, while retiring their original practical functions.

@elivanestrada (b. 1989 Guadalajara, MX)
Through his work, he proposes a reconsideration of industrial materials and natural objects, revealing the connective threads that link them to art and demonstrating how these relationships do not limit their potential for transformation, his pieces, grounded in production processes drawn from both fields, reveal the physical and visual conditions of each element, influenced by passages of memory.

Thanks to @_graham_wilson_ & @swivelgallery for all the support on this show

Thanks to @coleccion_alliuz for the support on this exhibition, for ALLIUZ collecting has been a journey of constant discovery. Each work marks a moment, a question, a learning process, and along this path, conversations and encounters have shaped a community that grows alongside the collection.

Thanks to @poliacero for the support on @elivanestrada career

OPENING:
Friday 30.Jan.2026
16:00 – 21:00hrs
📍 @galeriatiroalblanco