Engaging with the rich tradition of geometrical abstract and optical art, the artists’ works are often placed in a spatial context where light and reflection play a crucial role.

Moreover, the rich legacy of modern and contemporary art of her home country Venezuela, with Jesús Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Alejandro Otero, to name just a few, has left a profound impact on her as well as the architecture and public artworks scattered through the city of Caracas.

[7] They create highly controlled site-specific installations where our subjective experiences are tested by the continuous stimulation of our sensory and cognitive capacities.

By altering pure abstract language, the artists introduce figurative elements and representational forms that disrupt traditional lineages and consequently open up new paths of formal and conceptual enquiry.

[5] Arocha & Schraenen very often make use of reflective surfaces such as mirror and plexiglass that, by incorporating the surrounding space into the piece, allow them to investigate the depths of visual perception.

[9] In applying mirrored surfaces in such an unusual fashion – i.e. everyday objects and geometric forms – the pieces fracture the space and invalidate the once stable set of parameters that defined it.

[15] Carla Arocha met the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans in 1995 while he was preparing for his first exhibition in the United States at The Renaissance Society in Chicago.