13/10/2026
In “Dance Club - One Step at a Time”, Jaime Urdiales considers patience not as passivity, but as a form of awareness: a way of inhabiting the interval between intention and action.
A vintage car remains motionless before the club; a paper plane lies on the road, suspended before flight. Above, a dancing couple introduces another register of movement, one dependent on rhythm, attention and mutual response. Across these elements, Urdiales constructs a scene in which movement is never immediate, but negotiated, shaped by timing, anticipation and the possibility of choosing when to act.
The work belongs to Urdiales’ ongoing Amulets series, in which the artist reflects on the symbolic charge we project onto objects and images. Rather than offering certainty, these works operate as contemporary amulets: vessels for belief, reflection and psychological orientation.
Here, patience becomes the amulet itself, a reminder that progress can also emerge through restraint, and that knowing when to wait may be as significant as knowing when to move.
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Jaime Urdiales
Dance Club - One Step at a Time, 2026
Oil on canvas
39 × 33 cm
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