Elements of Experience | Press Release

Elements of Experience | Espace PORT.A 22-30 June, 2026 In the contemporary landscape, where sensory overload masks the structural foundations of our reality, Elements of Experience invites viewers to pause and reflect on the fundamental architecture of artistic expression. This exhibition brings together two distinct voices—Julien Pelloux and Alexander Acosta Osorio—to explore how art can serve as a primary conduit for human perception and memory. Elements of Experience is a meditation on the nature of the artistic experience, a profound emotional, intellectual, and sensory process that evokes personal meaning, deep resonance, and new perspectives. Through painting, installation, and photography, the artists employ minimal forms and distinctive compositions to strip away narrative distractions, revealing the ways in which we understand space, culture, and identity. For this exhibition Julien brings a rigorous approach to geometric abstraction. Drawing on mathematical progressions and Albers's color theories, his work creates a vibrant tension between control and spontaneity. His clean forms are not merely static shapes but rhythmic perceptions that generate an "illusion of expansion," turning the canvas into a breathing, inhabited silence inspired by Japanese aesthetics. He uses acrylic, moving from a geometric rigor achieved with masking tape to a more gestural, embodied and intuitive painting, worked directly with the brush in vibrant layers. His works convey a poetic tension between structure and spontaneity, inviting us to feel a vital breath, a subtle balance between control and freedom, magnified by the inspiring echo of Japanese culture and its inhabited silences. Julien Pelloux is from France, he grew up between Bordeaux and Paris and trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Julien has exhibited his work at Paris La Generale, Jean Collet Gallery, Saint Denis, Cretail Gag, and Pantin among others. Julien is also a textiles and installations expert working for American artist Sheila Hicks at Frank Elbaz Gallery. His expertise involves the realization of complex, three-dimensional installations frequently exhibited by the gallery in Paris and internationally. This is Julien’s first visit to Bulgaria. Alexander Acosta Osorio is originally from Colombia and grew up in Bogota. His first formal job was at Glacier National Park in Montana, later moving to New York City for a few years where he decided to pursue an art education, where he was mentored by American artist Betty Tompkins, Art historian and critic Lawrence Waldron, American Photographer Scott Sternbach, and American painter Dennis D'Amelio, among others. Alexander quickly got involved in the local art scene and participated in a variety of group exhibitions. For Alexander learning means doing. In New York, Alexander was exposed to a wealth of art influences and experiences that helped him develop a range of work in drawing and painting, leading up to his focus in photography. In his images Alexander explores the relationship of his subjects with their immediate surroundings; in them contemplative moments transform into memories, self-expression, and understanding of the human experience. Alexander is interested in how these relationships transform the way we perceive ourselves and how they change the way we look at things. Alexander also has collaborated with educational programs at the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, becoming an intern at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in its film and video center. After working with these art institutions Alexander had further apprenticeship training at Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, and Thomas & Associates. As a freelance art handler Alexander carried out art installation work for renowned art fairs and galleries such as Phillips Auction, Art Basel, The Armory Show, Ana Tzarev Gallery, Frith Street Gallery among others. For this exhibition Alexander has taken the experiences lived in the United States, Bulgaria and Europe and combined them in a visual narrative of time, color, and perspective. Each image and composition represents a period of his life and the places he has visited. The combination of images read as a dream-like passage rich with textures, personal expression, and emotion. Each work can stand rightly on its own but for Alexander they also can be more powerful as a single unity, as one experience. Alexander traveled the United States extensively mostly by train before moving to Bulgaria. He has lived in Sofia for the last fourteen years where he is raising his son. He travels around Bulgaria and Europe at least once a year.

Dead Rails edit of my DAD!

Sobrevivimos Dead Rails con mi PAPA!

Hoy ganamos en Dead Rails con mi Papa. Si quieren ver mas de estos videos escribeme en los comentarios (ejemplo: "Sobrevivimos WW2 con mi papa en Roblox") Canal de papa: ‪@alexanderacostaosorio‬