Last week, Auction House in Redruth inaugurated In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, a two-person exhibition by Venezuelan conceptual artist Eugenio Espinoza and British sculptor Leila Galloway. Marking Espinoza’s first ever UK show, the exhibition introduces his groundbreaking practice to new audiences. Renowned for his radical gestures in the 1970s that liberated painting from the confines of the gallery, Espinoza presents archival materials, film documentation, and new spatial interventions that echo Redruth’s industrial past. His deconstructed grids and performative ruptures engage the exhibition space as both stage and structure, expanding the dialogue between art, architecture, and public life.
In conversation with Espinoza’s conceptual legacy, Galloway’s sculptural practice explores the body’s relationship to space, landscape, and memory. Drawing on Cornwall’s material history, she works with industrial and found objects to build poetic encounters between matter and emotion. Together, their works unfold as a cross-cultural exchange—an exploration of chance, play, and reconstruction that reimagines the 1968 anthem In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida for a contemporary context. The exhibition opened to strong public interest, bridging Espinoza’s radical past with Galloway’s tactile present in a vibrant dialogue between form, place, and imagination.
