Irma Álvarez-Laviada’s work reflects on the materiality of Painting by questioning the ways of viewing, experience and understanding the art and its system. The physical absence of the work (when this leaves the space such as the artist’s studio) is the creative resource of her research, an opportunity to think of new configurations and possibilities expressed in the use of elements such as envelopes and sheets of plastic and cardboard - materials traditionally used for packaging, archiving and handling of the works. The transitory movement captured by the “negative” space temporarily occupied by the “positive” artwork acquires a new status, and the revealing materials establish a relationship with the exhibition space while maintaining their independence. Miren Doiz has also developed a research aimed at subverting the traditional means of Painting, exploring and expanding its limits to different media: photography, installation and sculpture. By taking the space and the forms of perception at the centre of the work, her pictorial gesture integrates the places dissolving in them and transforming in an almost invisible way. Minimal and essential, her a-pictorial intervention shows the space in its original appearance and overcome the boundary between what was there before and what comes after. Two-dimensional painting becomes three-dimensional, deconstructs and reconstructs through objects and spaces to incorporate them together with the observer.