Rubber Duck in Spin on Frozen Canal Ice, 2025-2026

Video duration: 1’29

Carlos Pesudo is a visual artist from Spain, currently based in Madrid. His work evokes ambiguity and unease. His visual research has led to a complex interplay of forms and registers—gestural, expressive, yet also subtle and delicate paintings that unfold through a balance of action and restraint. His work exists in a constant state of tension, with images that linger on an undefined threshold between abstraction and figuration.

The artist’s approach to image-making challenges traditional codes of representation. The ambiguity within his paintings invites viewers to question what they are seeing, as it happens in his video works. The scenes that emerge—dynamic and theatrical—feel both strange and familiar, revealing, almost unintentionally, his fascination with certain forms in nature, particularly those that strike him as violent or illogical for its understanding.

Pesudo has a relationship with Berlin that goes beyond this residency at GlogauAIR; there have been certain milestones in his creative process that were born in this city. This new series aims to revisit those symbols in order to transform them into his new proposal. On this occasion, the artist focuses on the surroundings of the residency, particularly on something that takes place around the canal.

Photos // Ksenia Proskuryakova