Miguel Sainz Ojeda’s ‘Estación infinita’, at the Centro Cultural Baños Árabes
Jaén, Spain
24
September - 02 November 2026
From 24 September to 2 November 2026, the Centro Cultural Baños Árabes de Jaén presents ‘Estación infinita’, an exhibition by Spanish artist Miguel Sainz Ojeda. Curated by Vicente Barba and Carmen Sabalete and presented in the Sala Arquitecto Luis Berges, the exhibition brings together 12 works created in 2026 specifically for the project.
Taking its title from ideas of nature, time, and recurrence, ‘Estación infinita’ examines the cycles that structure both the natural world and human experience. Rather than turning towards grand narratives, Sainz Ojeda focuses on what is easily overlooked: small forms of life, fleeting impressions, and traces of existence that often remain at the margins of perception.
This attention to the overlooked is closely connected to the artist’s intuitive working process. Sainz Ojeda does not begin with preparatory sketches, instead describing a state of intuitive blindness in which emotion and gesture precede interpretation. His paintings develop through accumulation: energetic marks, areas of colour and networks of lines gradually give rise to anthropomorphic creatures that recall birds, dogs, masks, or imaginary beings. Moving between figuration and abstraction, these forms appear to emerge and dissolve within the same pictorial space.
Gesture is central to this language. References to cave painting, graffiti and calligraphic traditions coexist with affinities to Spanish Informalism and Abstract Expressionism, yet Sainz Ojeda transforms these precedents into a highly personal vocabulary. The result is deliberately open-ended. Tenderness and cruelty, innocence and unease coexist without resolving into a fixed narrative or moral.
The historic setting of the Baños Árabes introduces an additional dialogue around memory, transformation and the persistence of traces over time. Represented by Opera Gallery since 2024, Sainz Ojeda continues in ‘Estación infinita’ to explore painting as a space in which instinct, memory, and imagination can remain productively unresolved.
