Andrés Delgado. Bancales

Andrés Delgado works from the idea of the bancal — the agricultural terrace built stone by stone — as a symbol of resistance, labour, and inherited memory. The exhibition text describes the territory of Arico, in southern Tenerife, not as a postcard landscape but as a “geography of resistance.”

Bancales turns the landscape into a body.

he terraces, walls, volcanic materials, abandoned water structures, and traces of agricultural life become a visual archaeology of effort and disappearance. Delgado does not paint the land as something decorative; he treats it as a living archive shaped by labour, scarcity, erosion, and memory.

You’re watching:

• Terraced landscapes transformed into abstract structures
• Stone walls that feel like scars across the land
• Corrugated cardboard, torn surfaces, and rough textures used as material language
• Volcanic references — jable, rofe, basalt, zahorra — turned into painterly matter
• A reflection on rural memory, extractivism, abandonment, and the replacement of old forms of sustainability by new industrial landscapes

The works feel physical, dry, wounded, and deeply rooted — like fragments of land trying not to disappear.