Opera Gallery will present Endless Sun-days, a new series of 15 canvases by Spanish artist Xevi Solà, marking his first solo exhibition in New York. Opening February 12, the exhibition draws on art history, cinema and pop culture, with references ranging from Slim Aarons’ modernist-inflected photography to Jacques Deray’s 1969 film La Piscine.
Across the series, Solà explores leisure as carefully staged performance. The swimming pool recurs as a central motif: a space of artificial calm where figures linger in moments of suspension, poised between relaxation and psychological tension. Combining cinematic composition with a psychologically charged atmosphere, Endless Sun-days presents a sunlit world in which unease simmers beneath the surface.
