Victoria Iranzo

Victoria Iranzo builds surreal, stage-like scenes that blur the boundaries between painting and theater. Her process begins with handcrafted dolls and backdrops—miniature protagonists placed within gouache or oil-rendered environments, photographed in the studio, and finally translated into richly colored canvases. The dolls bear no faces but gain character through their bespoke costumes, acting as silent witnesses in her poetic visual narratives Her compositions navigate between intimacy and ambiguity, where figures inhabit dreamlike settings charged with symbolic potential. Iranzo’s mastery of pigment and texture evokes emotional states—earthy tones suggest nostalgia while pastel forms evoke otherworldliness. The resulting works feel both familiar and uncanny, inviting slow engagement and introspection Drawing on a background in visual design and intuitive image-making, Iranzo treats the studio as a site of dialogue between object, fabric, camera, and canvas. Each painting emerges from carefully orchestrated combinations of motif and memory, yet the finished image stands alone as a visual fragment imbued with emotional resonance. Her art becomes a meditation on process, identity, and the imaginative potential embedded in everyday materials and childhood recollections. ...

Ballon Rouge began as a nomadic gallery in September of 2017. In our first two years we put up exhibitions in Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Brussels, Sao Paulo, Paris, and New York. Each of the cities we visited was stewarded by a ‘collective member’ - a curator who introduced us to artists and to their respective city’s art scene. In March of 2019 we made Brussels our home city, inaugurating our permanent space. While we will continue to do shows abroad alongside our collective members, our primary location is now Brussels. Besides our own exhibitions, the space in Brussels sometimes hosts invited international galleries to show with us in exchange for a show of ours at theirs - a further continuation of our ethos of collaboration and collectivity. So far we have collaborated or will soon collaborate with Hannah Barry Gallery (London); Melange (Cologne); Galerist (Istanbul); Gallery Artbeat, (Tbilisi); the Pill (Istanbul); Pi Artworks (Istanbul, London); Vitrine (London, Basel). ...