Aina Albo Puigserver. Interstices: Where the Sun Traces Time

“Interstices: Where the Sun Traces Time” is a project conceived for Exhibition Hall D at Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma. Starting with an elemental gesture—looking at the sun—Aina Albo Puigserver devises a visual exploration where light is turned into the measure, material and writing of time. The exhibition proposes a shift that goes beyond walls, the city and what is visible, where each piece works like a new orientation point, a new “you are here” inscribed not onto a physical map but onto an internal, abstract map of the universe.

In this exhibition, interstices—those minimal, fragile and often imperceptible spaces between one instant and the next, between a point of light and its displacement—become an area of research. Albo understands them as sites of appearance: cracks that reveal a way of knowing that is not immediate, but rather silent and accumulative. Interstices are thus the places where something begins to happen. Where time is made visible.

The analemma, that curve shaped like a figure eight that the sun moves along over the course of a year, becomes the guiding feature of this exhibition. The artist reminds us that this figure is not real, but rather a projection of movement: writing in light. Through her own, particular geometric language, Aina Albo invites us to inhabit these interstices and reflect on the variability of human perception of time and space. Her compositions take nature as a vehicle for abstract thinking. The shapes and materials she includes—glass, wood, varnishes, glazes—arise from her own careful observation of natural phenomena, enunciating a dialogue between measure and intuition.

The exhibition itself is conceived as a processual experiment, where time is not just represented but registered in the material. As with the analemma, her work reminds us that time is not linear, but rather a living curve that draws itself out while we observe it. In this intermediate space—where the sun traces time—perception becomes a form of knowledge and the world opens up like a space charged with interstices: spaces where visible and invisible are in dialogue.

 

Aina Albo Puigserver (Palma, 1982) lives and works in Selva, Mallorca. She has a degree in Fine Arts, having studied at the University of Salamanca and the Miguel Hernández University in Elche.

In her artistic practice, basic forms of landscape are interwoven with the geometry of atmospheric, luminescent and astronomical phenomena. Her interest in the course of thought during contemplation, and in shifting these instants into the work itself, where reality seems to fade and fiction arises as a possibility, gives way to scenarios that invite us to move amidst what is known, viable and impossible.

Her exhibition history features shows at the Museo Francisco Sobrino (Guadalajara, 2025), Pep Llabrés Art Contemporani (Palma, 2023 and 2016), Galeria Impakto (Lima, 2019) and Now: Gallery (Lima, 2022). She has also participated in group exhibitions, such as the Biennal d’Art de Pollença (Mallorca, 2025), the Bienal de Arte de San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid, 2025) and the Biennal Internacional L’Andart (Andorra, 2023), while also showing in spaces such as Casal Son Tugores (Alaró, Mallorca, 2024) and the Fundación Studio Weil (Andratx, Mallorca, 2022), among others. She has also participated in contemporary art fairs, including Estampa Contemporary Art Fair, SP-Arte (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and PArC Lima (Peru).

Her work is found in public and private collections, such as MACVAC – Museu d’Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni (Castelló), the Ars Citerior collection (Valencia Region), the Soria Provincial Council, the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Consell de Mallorca, among others. In 2023 she received the Residencias Artísticas Silos grant (Burgos), and in 2021 won the Certamen de Creación Artística of the Soria Provincial Council.