PURE CORE

22 01 2026

Concept by Karla Peralta Málaga Senior Art Curator

Art begins at the center. That irreducible point where intention meets tangible, where vision takes form. Pure Core is an invitation to artists to strip away the superfluous and return to the essence of creative practice, to work from a place of radical clarity and transformative power. This exhibition explores liminality and collective mythopoesis: art as threshold space where new realities emerge, where artists and communities collaboratively forge meaning and myth. Like Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, whose 17th-century cosmovision diagrams centered an order within radial compositions, we seek works that emanate from a luminous core. He created a series of calendar drawings, which were connected to the Andean cosmovision. Opening in January Guaman Poma's month of powerful celebration towards generative energy, when Andean rituals renewed cosmic bonds and transformed individuals through ceremony this exhibition channels that same creative force.

We call artists to create work that transforms, that gathers, that illuminates from within. We seek artists who understand that purity is not simplicity but distillation the concentrated essence of an idea, emotion, or material truth.

Wakeful artists work from your core. Let each piece radiate outward with the intensity of your imperative vision. Embrace the liminal spaces where forms dissolve and reconstitute, where meaning is made collectively between artist and witness.

In an age of fragmentation and noise, Pure Core asks: What remains when everything else falls away? What burns at the center of your practice? Answer with artworks that glow from within, that pulses with generative force. Just PURE CORE.