Acelerada Quietud > Work in Progress

<jats:p>Within the framework of the interuniversity agreement between the University of Málaga and the Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) of Dakar, I direct a pedagogical and exhibition program that includes the publication of a digital catalog for my solo exhibition titled Accelerated Stillness &gt; Work in Progress: Decolonial Laboratory of Circulation, which will be presented at the Blaise Senghor Cultural Center in Dakar, Senegal. The exhibition Accelerated Stillness reveals the photographic, audiovisual, and object-based research that artist Juan Carlos Robles has been developing in Dakar, Senegal. It is a process of collective dialogical validation where the local environment analyzes the images, ensuring the horizontality of the creative process for its definitive edition. It is part of a pedagogical project focused on student training and the creation of shared learning spaces. The exhibition opens on July 10, 2026, at the Blaise Senghor Regional Cultural Center. It will also feature two lectures and two workshops led by Juan Carlos Robles and Malick Diagne Faye. The objective is to promote an environment conducive to critical reflection, audiovisual experimentation, and knowledge exchange. Guided tours will also be offered, conceived as pedagogical moments for dialogue regarding creative processes in Sub-Saharan Africa from a decolonial perspective. The deployment of the exhibition Accelerated Stillness &gt; Work in Progress: Decolonial Laboratory of Circulation responds to a situated and non-extractive creative methodology. The audiovisual, photographic, and sculptural projects presented here operate as a work in progress and are offered to the public as an open pedagogical laboratory. This exhibition constitutes a session for sharing and collaborative debate with the local agents and communities that articulate the research. This artistic project is situated in Dakar as a decolonial laboratory of circulation, time, and representation. Through photography, video, installation, and sculpture, the works trace a sensitive mapping of urban flows, bodies in transit, architectures of power, colonial heritages—including Islamic heritage—and the tensions between neoliberal accelerationism, daily life, and ancestral memory as an identity balm. The catalog contains a text by the artist, images of his works, as well as an additional text to be confirmed.</jats:p>