Alejandro Faura - EL instante 2

The Instant (2026), an oil painting by Alejandro Faura, explores dreams as a real and essential experience of being, understood not as escape but as a direct extension of conscious reality, where the inner and outer worlds merge into a single plane of existence. The figure of the child, captured in a paused turn and a suspended gaze, embodies that precise point of transition where perception unfolds, while the elongated fish crossing their body serve as metaphors for dreamlike thought:
Streams of consciousness that circulate, cross, and shape identity. The intense red background, built up from layers of color applied with broad, visible brushstrokes, reinforces the sense of mental energy and living matter, suggesting that both the figure and the space share the same emotional and symbolic substance. Technically, Faura combines a more restrained and modeled treatment of the face with a more gestural and dynamic execution in the environment, creating a contrast that emphasizes the tension between the concrete and the intangible. The slight distortion and pictorial sweep in the face evoke the fragility of the present moment, that ephemeral point where reality and dream overlap, affirming the idea that we are made of the same matter as dreams and that they do not occur apart from the world but continue and reveal it. The work is sold directly by the artist, is an original edition, in excellent condition, and will be carefully shipped in a box.