The exhibition that Juan López presents at the Galería Juan Silió is a project that takes the city as an archaeological environment. He builds different installation elements based on the capture of negatives of different surfaces of the urban environment. Based on the language of the city itself, a new system of signs is formed with which he works, in relation to his previous work in which the analysis of the architectural elements, the study of its image as text and symbol, is a constant.

Surface prospecting, a work process that seeks to pinpoint new contemporary sites, focuses on the surface layer of the ground to extract information on the most recent activity. Capturing these negatives reveals elements found in the crust of the city: all sorts of marks, signs and constructions are recovered. It transfers these codes to new skins, converting the small accidents and erosions caused by the passage of time (undercuts, scratches...) as well as various graphic elements (horizontal road signs, sgraffito markings, etc.) into the counterform of the city.

With the translation of these negatives into a new materiality Juan López constructs an environment in which a certain familiarity is sensed, although our brain, which still has to learn to distinguish the new phonemes, has the sensation of entering an inhospitable, unknown space, which nevertheless offers us shelter.