Lito Sferas is an exhibition by Lito Portela that emerges from an artist’s book conceived as the core of the project: a piece handcrafted by the artist, designed by Rai Iglesias, that brings together poetic texts by Manuel Romón, critical reflections, and original works on paper. It is not a simple container of images, but a total artwork in which word, matter and gesture merge into a single creative process.

The project, initiated in 2020, understands landscape not as a subject to be represented, but as a lived experience to inhabit: walking, being, and moving through the hills become part of the artistic act itself. This identification between body and territory runs throughout the exhibition, which invites visitors to slow down, to pause, and to engage with the work through the intimacy proposed by the book and the visual expansion of the pieces displayed in the space.

Paintings on paper and intervened books extend the same reflection: surfaces that evoke rock, sediment, erosion and time, expressed through a contained and essential painting style. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between landscape and identity, advocating for an ethical and sensitive gaze towards nature in contrast to the contemporary homogenization of the territory. More than showing images, Lito Sferas invites us to symbolically inhabit the landscape and reminds us that we, too, are part of it.