Ventana, the Spanish word for 'window', presents new jewellery and textile works by Marcos Guzman. Guzman's hints at a story, a few seconds of still frames from a bigger picture, like a framed view to a larger world. His forms, colours and materials, both subtly detailed and boldly graphic, generate visual cues that amplify our sense of something happening beyond the frame, alongside simple narratives suggested in the titles. Part visual artist, part poet, Guzman's works are particular combinations of word and material that can both transport us and focus our attention.
 
Best known for his brightly coloured jewellery work, the often minimalist and abstract compositions of acrylic shapes in Guzman's jewellery are becoming reworked into 'soft paintings', taking the graphic elements of the jewellery and creating textile works that become a canvas for compositional and spatial interpretations. Drawing on the inheritance of artists such as Anni and Josef Albers, these textile works take the relationships of colour and shape as their starting points but are replete with suggested narratives and references. Quiet, trivial circumstances, moments of wellbeing, a dilemma or a plight, hold minor narratives that can go unnoticed. Guzman is drawn to the challenge of finding a way to express these things graphically through form, colour and title as he works through condensing ideas into small artworks.