Adrián Jorques’ artistic practice unfolds as a continuous exploration of landscape as a symbolic construction, whether in its urban or rural dimension. His work revolves around the traces left by human presence on the environment: impressions, marks, and records that reveal both the passage of time and the accelerated rhythms of contemporary life. These elements are not mere remnants, but active layers of memory, open to multiple interpretations.

A focus on deterioration, abandonment, and the material transformation of space becomes visible through works born from the fragment: textures, altered patterns, and forms eroded by history or use. These images, gathered during the artist’s passage through various territories, are translated into pictorial language through a process that emphasizes accumulation, layering, and stratification. Each pictorial layer functions as a sedimentation of visual experiences, sensory resonances, and contained time.

Jorques proposes a contemplative gaze—one that invites the viewer to move beyond surface appearances and to encounter what is residual, impermanent, and often overlooked. His work does not portray landscape as a backdrop, but as body and memory.

He graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where he also obtained a Master’s Degree in Artistic Production. His work is included in collections such as the Juan José Castellano Comenge Foundation and the Gandía Blasco Group, among others.

His work has been awarded at the Abierto Valencia 2023, the XXVII Vila de Paterna Biennial, 2nd prize, the XXI University of Murcia Painting Prize, 1st prize and residencies for artistic creation and research, MUA, Alicante, finalist in the III Mª Painting Biennial Isabel Comenge Fundación Juan José Castellano Comenge 2022, and honourable mention in the XXIV and XXIII Fundación Mainel National Painting Prize, among others.