Eloy Arribas’s painting stands out for its distinctive surfaces: worn, rough and highly worked. They seem almost carved directly, like when people scratch their names into city walls. His intriguing technique evokes a process of removal, akin to sculpting clay, and recalls the idea of the palimpsest, with earlier layers partially visible.

Although his chaotic marks create a frenetic atmosphere, he balances them with a restrained palette and almost childlike figures that blend into the background. It is worth noting that his first entry into art was as a graffiti writer, traces of which still remain in his visual vocabulary. One of his earliest artistic references was the painter Cy Twombly, though he has always been drawn to images not made by professionals but produced by accidents or natural events acting on surfaces and objects – a kind of vernacular graffiti.