In the surfaces created by Dudu Garcia, we sense something that
precedes us and runs through us. The marks left there are not merely
material and gesture: they evoke a distant time when human presence
was inscribed in the world through need, instinct, and language.
Vestiges of the Pleistocene suggests a symbolic return to that primal
moment. Here, painting approaches the wall — as shelter, as a layer of
history. Texture takes center stage: built through accumulations,
erosions, accidents, and revelations. The palette evokes earth, time,
and what endures beyond use and abandonment.
These works do not seek a finished image. They are living, open
surfaces where the artist’s making intersects with the traces left by
time. Dudu’s gesture does not dominate the matter — it listens,
welcomes, responds. There is a silent excavation guiding the process,
as if painting were at once construction and discovery.
When looking at these canvases, the viewer does not find a narrative,
but vestiges — signs of passage, of presence, of memory. Something
ancestral lingers, not as a reconstruction of the past, but as an
expanded perception of the present.
