Pionera
Pionera (Madrid)
Pionera is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2022 in Pinamar, Argentina, by a group of art managers, curators, and artists. Since 2023, it has been based in Madrid while maintaining an active presence in Argentina as a traveling project. Its program is strongly committed to representing emerging artists and to creating a space for encounter, exhibition, and research within the field of contemporary artistic practices.
Proposal
For Swab 2026, Pionera presents Joaquín Carbajales’ latest photographic project, La muerte es color de rosas (“Death Is Rose-Colored”), which is a series of still lifes and floral portraits that explores grief and the different ways of confronting loss. Rather than approaching the subject from a solemn perspective, Carbajales embraces playfulness, experimenting with impossible scenes and unexpected compositions. Through humor, color, and carefully constructed arrangements, the series reflects on the process of rebuilding oneself through pain and finding new ways of inhabiting loss.
Joaquín Carbajales (Buenos Aires, 1990) is a photographer and visual artist based in Madrid. Trained in Architecture and at Vivian Galván’s art clinic, his practice brings together photography, sculpture, installation, and writing in a shared exploration of intimacy and human relationships.
Author of Frontera (India Ediciones, 2022), his first photobook, his latest solo show, La muerte es color de rosas (2026), explores grief and the possible ways of inhabiting loss.
