Ricardo Alcaide

Liminal

2025 

aluminum, MDF, brick

Ricardo Alcaide’s work is derived from an acute and intuitive response to the socio-spatial dynamics of the different cities he has lived in. Born in Caracas (1967), based for fourteen years in London, thirteen in São Paulo, and now based in Antwerp, all these distinct urban environments inform his visual language. 

The various social and cultural shifts provide context that has continuously informed his artistic practice over the years. Grounded in his artistry is his foundational relationship to Latin America and the tradition of post-modern geometric abstraction.

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In Liminal, Ricardo Alcaide transforms construction materials into meditations on imperfection, displacement, and memory. Through vertically oriented compositions, the works evoke the architecture of control—structures that aspire upward yet bear the trace of human touch. Materials such as aluminum, MDF, and brick—often hidden behind façades—are brought to the surface, revealing the beauty of what is usually unseen or unfinished. 

Smooth planes meet scuffed edges; brushstrokes spill beyond their bounds. These gestures resist the purity of modernist perfection, allowing imperfection to become both method and meaning. In this space between elevation and erosion, reflection and residue, Liminal considers how structure can hold emotion and how precision fractures into intimacy. The works stand as quiet architectures of transition, embodying a fragile balance between clarity and collapse, control and release—where disorder becomes beauty, and imperfection, a method.