09/07/2026
Jaime Urdiales, presents the first two works from a new body of work dedicated to contemporary amulets.
Shown at Contemporary Art Now Ibiza, The Dog Days Are Over and Make Good Choices reflect on the persistence of belief in a world still searching for signs of protection, luck and hope.
In The Dog Days Are Over, Urdiales transforms a real street in Madrid into a fictional dog grooming salon, embedding the scene with familiar symbols of fortune: a coin, a rabbit’s foot, a Turkish evil eye and other urban omens. The everyday becomes charged with ritual, turning the image itself into a contemporary lucky charm.
In Make Good Choices, the painting becomes an amulet for discernment, suggesting that protection may reside not in chance, but in wisdom and the decisions we take.
Together, the two works ask what kind of amulets we still need today.
Jaime Urdiales
The Dog Days Are Over, 2026
Oil on canvas
39 × 33 cm
Jaime Urdiales
Make Good Choices, 2026
Oil on canvas
39 × 33 cm
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