José León Cerrillo

vanitas, featuring sculptures, prints, and large-scale ceramic works, extends Cerrillo's ongoing exploration of the void as a generative space for abstraction. It presents one instance in a sequence of variations-one ceramic piece, a torso, and a series of lithographs-each engaging with the recurring motif of absence. If the traditional vanitas composition reflects on mortality and the ephemerality of existence, Cerrillo's vanitas expands this discourse by addressing emptiness not as negation but as a space of possibility. The ineffable void, rather than signifying nothingness, becomes a site for abstraction's emergence, unbound by fixed conceptual designations.