Journal — Sur Gallery

simple as that — Gabriel Lordello at Sur Gallery
Featuring 36 photographs, Simple as That marks Gabriel Lordello's second solo exhibition and opened on 16 May at Sur Gallery, Barcelona. View Available Works The everyday and the beauty of simplicity are the guiding thread of Simple as That, the exhibition that Brazilian photographer Gabriel Lordello is presenting at Sur Gallery in Barcelona, open from 16 May. The invitation came from gallerist Franquilandia Gonçalves, who selected this authored series to occupy the space of the only gallery in Spain dedicated exclusively to contemporary Latin American art. Gabriel Lordello — Simple... Read more...
The photography of Gabriel Lordello
New realities emerge from the photographer's keen eye. He possesses the ability to freeze time and movement, transforming the fleeting moment into memory and a lasting record. Paying homage to the great Brazilian photographers Sebastião Salgado, Luiz Braga and Walter Firmo, Gabriel Lordello explores his surroundings to create a visual narrative rich in memory and humanity. View Available Works In Lordello's photography, landscapes imbued with joy, resilience and faith whisper historical secrets: children play ball in front of the Church of the Three Kings, a Jesuit building from the Portuguese... Read more...
Artist Profile: Gabriel Lordello
Gabriel Lordello (guest collaborator) View available works → Brazilian photographer and guest collaborator of Sur Gallery, Gabriel Lordello has spent his career turning his lens on the margins of cities, popular culture, and lived religiosity. His first encounter with photography came at twelve, when his father lent him a camera for a school trip — a moment that set the course of his practice. He holds a degree in Photojournalism and a postgraduate qualification in Communication Management, and spent ten years (2004–2014) as a photojournalist and editor at the newspaper... Read more...
Artist Profile: Gabriela Brito
Gabriela Brito in her studio View available works → Gabriela Brito (guest collaborator) — Look What I Found, 2023 View available works → Venezuelan visual artist and designer, Gabriela Brito is a guest collaborator of Sur Gallery. She works primarily in drawing and painting. She holds a degree in Strategic Design and Management from Parsons The New School for Design (New York) and postgraduate qualifications in Museum and Cultural Heritage Management (UIC, Barcelona) and Curatorship in Digital Arts (ESDi – Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona). Her work takes the female figure... Read more...
Artist Profile: Alejandra Coz Rosenfeld
Alejandra Coz Rosenfeld — Untitled I, 2019 View available works → Alejandra Coz Rosenfeld — Untitled II, 2019 View available works → Poet, visual artist, therapist, and astrologer. Alejandra Coz is a guest collaborator of Sur Gallery. She studied Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Art at Palazzo Spinelli in Florence, Italy. She is the author of the poetry collections Marea Baja (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2017) and La Jabalina (Ediciones Filacteria, 2019), and the novel La Lava (Sangría Editores, 2021). Her practice moves across poetry and memory.... Read more...
A Mother's Month Selection
Luciana Faria — Rain in a Rest of the Sun, 2022 View available works → Andreia Falqueto — Output, 2025 View available works → To celebrate Mother's Month, our curatorial vision speaks from a place of feminine creative force — the beauty and enchantment of art made by women's hands. LILIANA SANCHES is an artist inspired by cinema and literature, placing focus on feminine sensuality, the delicacy of gesture, and the memories of the dreaming girl she carries within. ANDREIA FALQUETO plays with diverse painting techniques to reinterpret everyday scenes... Read more...
Sur Gallery: Latin American Art for European Collections
SUR GALLERY is a contemporary art gallery based in Barcelona, bringing Latin American art to collectors across Europe through its online platform. Gallerist, cultural manager, and art historian Franquilandia Gonçalves personally tends to every detail, offering clients original, recent works by mid-career contemporary artists — spanning painting, drawing, collage, assemblage, and embroidery — by both represented artists and guest collaborators invited each season of the Colecciona Sur Programme. While the gallery does not represent exclusively women artists, one of its central commitments is to place more works by women artists... Read more...