Horror vacui is translated in Latin as "fear of empty space", a term once used to describe the stylistic tendency to fill every blank space in a work of art with detail. In this presentation, Almanza Pereda appropriates still life and landscape paintings of an idyllic and affable nature but which, at the end, are inhospitable to the human being, who needs architecture and concrete as a refuge from the outside.

Responding to specific sculptural qualities of the frame, the artist intervenes them with soft and/or rough concrete slabs. The result is a brutalist and baroque composition that obscures the image and subverts the logic that sustains the painting: instead of a frame hanging on the wall, it is the painting that carries a part of the weight wall. By contrasting these romantic scenery with a building material, Almanza Pereda calls attention to the space-filling processes of human construction. Also seems to question the covering up of historic elements, the interpretation of values across time, and changes in taste, from the hand-crafted decorative painting to the “minimalist” concrete used in contemporary design.