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PLUKU is a soft architecture for art to inhabit—locally grounded, globally resonant
Pluku Gallery presents the beginning of a new collaborative project with artist OMS Rocha.In this inaugural performance, the artist paints a single circle in real time—an intimate gesture expanded through live projection. This first gesture opens the portal for a longer-term exploration of colour, cycles, and contemplative perception. Over the coming months, the project will evolve into a series inspired by kasina-based visual meditations, phenomenology, and slow attention practices, developed in collaboration with curator and designer Andreina Aragoneses. The Circle Practice begins here, with a gesture that listens.
OMS Rocha (b. 1987) is a self-taught visual artist from Mexico, currently living between London and France.Originally trained in Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), his practice is informed by spatial thinking and an attentive, material sensibility. His influences include Carlo Scarpa, Eladio Dieste, Lee Ufan, Richard Serra, Nobuo Sekine, and Olafur Eliasson, among others—figures whose work explores gesture, structure, and the poetics of space. OMS began painting in 2019 while working at Studio Antoine Ratigan, collaborating with international artists and simultaneously cultivating his interest in interior design.Today, his work revolves around slow gesture, cycles, and contemplative perception, often expressed through the repeated motif of the circle. He currently develops painting, drawing, and experiential projects across Europe.
At the dawn of modernity, architecture emerged as a space of fundamental questions: how do we inhabit structures that interrupt the void? What does it mean to make the unnatural livable? Since then, the notion of "habitable space" has remained a zone of tension—a place where habits, gestures, and traces converge to shape our experience of the built environment. In Itzio Barberena's work, this inquiry materialises as an exercise in contrast and revelation. His mural and graphic practice explores the edges of form, where light and its negation—shadow, absence, void—engage in active dialogue. His work does not begin with direct affirmation, but rather with a question: what lies within that inside and outside which defines the visible? How do thresholds between public and private, constructed and evoked, operate? Barberena's muralism—nourished by architectural gesture and expanded graphic language—does not merely represent space; it generates it. On his surfaces, absolute white—the trace of total light—and deep black—the register of optical silence—coexist with a spectrum of greys that do more than nuance: they shape volumes, evoke atmospheres, and trace presence. The intangible becomes form through a visual grammar that conceives matter as an extension of the sensory. His work asks: is the void inhabitable? Can a structure contain not only bodies, but also narratives, memories, possibilities? At the intersection of gesture and plane, wall and light, technique and intuition, a form of visual knowledge emerges—one that resists fixed answers and instead insists on the mystery of form. Materialisation of the Intangible inaugurates Pluku's programme with a proposal that not only occupies space, but reflects on it. Like a first stone laid in dialogue with the city, with history, and with the bodies that move through them, Itzio Barberena’s work proposes a way of inhabiting that welcomes the indeterminate, and an aesthetic that understands the wall as a resonance field for that which has yet to be named.
Itzio Barberena is a Mexican artist and muralist whose practice has its roots in graffiti culture, expanding into mural interventions and explorations of public space. Trained as an architect and a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at UNAM, his work focuses on rethinking the city as a shared territory and creating visual encounters that challenge established urban narratives.
He has developed commissioned pieces, participated in artist residencies, and collaborated on various projects that merge architecture, landscape, and community engagement.
He is currently working on a mural in the Pilsen neighborhood, selected through an open call and community vote to intervene in a wall within a central park, facing a historic neighborhood mural. His piece offers a contemporary dialogue with the site’s visual memory and its residents.
