Untold Words by It’s a Living

After his solo show at the 12th Edition of Salón ACME in February 2025, It’s a Living reaffirms his partnership with Saenger Galería and, in collaboration with Casa Limantour, has developed Untold Words—a project specifically designed for the indoor and outdoor spaces of Casa Limantour. This project draws from the unique characteristics of the house and the artist’s recent interest in exploring new materials in his practice, which now includes both rigid and solid supports such as steel, as well as fragile and translucent ones like silk.

Curated by Eduardo Luque, It’s a Living has brought together in Untold Words a previously unseen body of paintings, sculptures, and installations. These works originate from his notebooks, where he preserves a wide range of self-authored texts, including poems, confessions, notes, and other reflections on everyday life that the artist has compiled over the past few years. The artworks exhibed in Untold Words resemble an anthology of the unspoken—a collection of writings that leave silence and private space behind to be shared and read aloud through his distinctive script and typography, creating a dialogue between the viewer, the surrounding space, and the artwork.

Ricardo’s practice allows us to momentarily suspend our thoughts, letting us focus our attention on the present moment and engage with the artwork—through its forms, colors, and messages. As we perceive the movements reflected in his images—through the natural flow with which paint spills onto the canvas in a continuous force over the accumulation of words—we take part in the composition’s internal rhythm.

By standing before Ricardo’s work without projecting previous judgments onto it—as exemplified by the painting Sentiment (2025)—we become involved in an affective act, one of enjoyment and simultaneous engagement with both the gestural quality of the calligraphy and the content of the writing. This encounter enables a meditative focus, where the notion of time dissolves and a state of complete absorption and refuge emerges.

In this condition, the artist reminds us, “words are also images”; and the text-images he creates call for constant deciphering and interpretation, with the primary aim of questioning our everyday lives and generating a positive impact. In life, as in art, there is no definitive meaning—only continuity. After all, it’s a way of life.

— Eduardo Luque