NARRATIVE UNIVERSES

UNIVERSOS NARRATIVOS — Exhibition Catalogue

BLACKLIGHT ART GALLERY presents Universos Narrativos (Narrative Universes), a group exhibition bringing together some of the most notable names in contemporary comic and illustration to explore the power of the image as a language capable of building worlds, emotions, and stories.

Through a wide range of styles, techniques, and sensibilities, the exhibition traces a journey through visual universes that move between fiction and intimacy, the fantastic and the everyday, the symbolic and the autobiographical. Each work functions as an open window onto its own narrative, where drawing becomes a territory of memory, imagination, and reflection.

Within the exhibition coexist a classical, memory-driven voice that reinterprets the graphic novel through pause and emotion; an epic, fantastical voice shaped by decades of visual world-building; an atmospheric, psychological voice built on silence and mystery; an intimate voice centered on vulnerability and desire; and voices rooted in urban art and experimental illustration, where graffiti, pop culture, and design meet visual storytelling.

Artists such as Carlos Maiques, Cento Yuste, Deih, Iris Serrano, Jazzy Dope, Laura Pérez Granel, Luis Royo, Paco Roca, Pendragon, RX, Santi Onasu, and Sara Herranz shape this landscape, forming an intergenerational dialogue where the graphic novel, editorial illustration, urban art, and visual experimentation coexist.

Universos Narrativos affirms comic and illustration as fundamental disciplines within contemporary art — media capable not only of telling stories, but of generating atmospheres, identities, and new ways of seeing the world. More than a thematic exhibition, it is an invitation to pause, observe, and read visually: each piece contains a possible story, each line opens a door to another world.

From Valencia, BLACKLIGHT ART GALLERY invites viewers to step into this map of shared imaginaries, where graphic narrative becomes artistic experience and each universe finds its own voice.

BLACKLIGHT ART GALLERY

Bilingual edition (Spanish/English) · Softcover · Approximately 40 pages.