Exhibitions

Chema Madoz

Madrid, Spain

Chema Madoz doesn’t photograph objects. He photographs the moment when an object becomes an idea.

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© Galería Elvira González. Chema Madoz Sin título, 2022 Impresión por inyección de tinta sobre papel de algodón Hahnemühle

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ArtLovers Tip

Choose one photograph and stay with it until the object stops being obvious. The best Madoz images don’t shout — they click quietly in your mind, like a small door opening inside the everyday.

Exhibition Highlights - What you'll see

Contemporary conceptual photography, poetic object photography, visual metaphor, and surrealism of the everyday.

Madoz continues his long investigation into objects and their multiple meanings, transforming ordinary things into images that remain open to reinterpretation.

This exhibition invites you to discover the most recent creations by Chema Madoz, produced between 2024 and 2025. In this new show, the artist proposes a visual game where everyday objects cease to be what they seem in order to reveal unexpected stories and meanings.

Through his camera, the everyday is transformed into something suggestive and full of possibilities.

As Madoz himself explains: “What interests me is the idea of finding, of discovery, of perceiving the mystery in the everyday.” Do not miss this opportunity to rediscover the world through his unique, curious, and surprising gaze.

You’re watching:

  • Everyday objects turned into visual riddles
  • Images where one thing suddenly becomes another
  • Photography that works like poetry: minimal, precise, and full of double meanings
  • Objects stripped of context so they can become symbols, jokes, questions, or discoveries

The magic is that nothing looks spectacular at first. A chair, a mirror, a tool, a piece of paper, a shadow — and then suddenly, your mind flips.

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you love art that makes you look twice.

Because Chema Madoz has built one of the most recognizable visual languages in Spanish contemporary photography: simple objects, black-and-white clarity, and ideas that feel both playful and philosophical.

It matters because his work reminds us that mystery is not far away. It is hidden inside the everyday — waiting for someone to notice it. As Madoz says, what interests him is “finding,” “discovery,” and perceiving mystery in daily life.

How to experience it

Don’t read the image too fast — let the visual trick arrive slowly

Ask yourself: what was this object before, and what has it become?

Notice how little is needed: light, shadow, scale, association

Let humor and mystery coexist

Move from image to image like reading short poems, not like scanning photographs

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