Leaning against the wall, lying on the floor or standing upright on the base their own form generates, the works Elena Mendizabal brings together in La cosa dice (The Thing Says) adopt the postures of a body that rises, rests or falls. They do so through the restraint of the beam, the plank and the block, which the artist has worked on between 2025 and 2026 until turning them into presences that establish an open, bodily relationship with whoever looks at them. Organised in three groups, the twenty-seven pieces trace an arc that runs from an emphasis on colour and materials to the carved word.
Arriba-Abajo (Up-Down, 2025–2026) groups together small pieces with a stepped profile that the eye travels along, climbing and descending as in a platform video game, bringing down to the scale of the hand the swing between what is won and what is lost. Their austerity, close to Malevich's architectons, coexists with intense pinks, browns verging on black and beads of rose quartz and jet, costume-jewellery stones that add a note of adornment culturally associated with the feminine.