New Retinas
Visions of an Impossible Spectrum
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Part one: November 6, 2025
Part two: December 5, 2025
At ARTLAB Siroco, Madrid, Spain
Visions of an impossible spectrum
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Digital light is replacing reflected pigments as the essence of vision. Every screen we face emits a new visible spectrum that has never existed in nature. The pixel, born from the same red-green-blue trinity that shapes our retinas, stimulates our brains with combinations of light and color that no wavelength of sunlight can reproduce.
As this new spectrum colonizes our senses, the retina now finds itself forced to absorb and process unfamiliar chromatic spaces.
New Retinas is more than an exhibition — it is an aesthetic and physiological experience. In this two-part encounter, seeing reveals itself as never having been a passive act: the retina must learn and transform to inhabit a new visual fiction.
Part one: CONTRASTS
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November 6, 2025
21:00 Doors open
21:30 Guided tour with Tales Tommasini
22:00 DJ set by Josephine' Soundscapes
00:00 Closing
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Andreas Gysin
Elena Juárez
Kerim Safa
Loïc Schwaller (loackme)
Novíssimo Edgar
Owen McAteer (Motus Art)
Regina Silveira
Theo Firmo
Yoshi Sodeoka
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The primordial electronic pixel, like photography, first appeared in black and white, limited by binary logic: light or absence, 1 or 0. The earliest screens (based on cathode ray tubes and scanning systems) converted electrical signals into pulses of light upon a grid. Each pixel represented a minimal unit of visual information, born from the interaction between mathematics, electricity, and perception.
The absence of color, a deliberate limit set by the artists themselves, invites the eye to observe digital light as a carrier of primitive, almost archaic meanings, infused with a nostalgia (or perhaps a new reading) for the dawn of the electronic era.
Part two: SATURATIONS
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December 5, 2025
21:00 Doors open
21:30 Guided tour with Tales Tommasini
22:00 DJ set by Josephine' Soundscapes
00:00 Closing
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Artist lineup coming soon
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From the 1960s onward, the pixel ceased to be an entity of contrast and unfolded into three subpixels — red, green, and blue — which combine into millions of hues through the additive synthesis of light.
This transformation profoundly altered the relationship between image and reality. Unlike pigments, which absorb light, the pixel emits a palette that has never existed in nature. Color screens do not merely reproduce the world; they reconfigure it. Vision now depends on artificial frequencies and algorithmic combinations that reprogram both retina and brain.
In this second part, the artists explore the infinitude of these new spectrums through generative code, visual algorithms, and artificial intelligences — leading our retinas into lush, unfamiliar visual universes. How far can our vision reinvent itself to inhabit a world dominated by artificial frequencies that challenge the very perception of the real?
