From January 17 through March 14, 2026, Marshall Gallery presents Windows to the Unexpected, the fourth solo exhibition at the gallery by the Spanish duo Albarrán Cabrera. Featuring works from their recent series The Indestructible alongside selections from earlier bodies of work, the exhibition coincides with the release of their eighth artist book and offers a sweeping view of a collaboration that has steadily deepened since the late 1990s.
Comprised of Ángel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera, the Barcelona-based artists approach photography less as documentation than as meditation. Drawing influence from literature, cinema, philosophy, and even physics, their images hover between presence and disappearance. In The Indestructible, they reflect on nature’s persistence—on light filtering through branches, horizons dissolving into atmosphere, and subtle forces that endure beyond human measure. These photographs function as thresholds, inviting viewers into spaces where perception slows and certainty softens.
The exhibition also includes select works from The Mouth of Krishna, Kairos, and Opticks, the latter among their most experimental explorations of light and surface. Throughout, Albarrán Cabrera’s meticulous printing techniques are central to the experience. Employing pigment inks on hand-coated papers adorned with gold leaf, they create prints that shimmer and shift as one moves before them. The gold does not decorate; it transforms, catching ambient light and lending the image a quiet radiance that feels almost devotional. Each photograph asserts itself as an object—crafted, tactile, and singular.
Collected by institutions and private patrons across Europe and beyond, the duo’s work has earned international recognition while remaining steadfastly introspective. Windows to the Unexpected affirms their belief that photography can still offer moments of pause and contemplation. In an age of instant images, Albarrán Cabrera ask us to look longer—to find, within the luminous surface, intimations of time, memory, and an enduring life force that resists erasure.
Image: Albarrán Cabrera, The Indestructible #70040, 2025 Pigment ink on gold leaf, 20 x 29 in © Albarrán Cabrera
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