Alzueta Gallery is pleased to present Ritual of shapes, a solo exhibition by Dutch photographer Bastiaan Woudt that will be on view from the 29th of January until the 7th of March at Alzueta Gallery Barcelona Turó. This exhibition presents the artist’s most recent body of work, shown at Alzueta Gallery for the first time as a curated exhibition. Exhibiting in 2026 marks a milestone in Woudt’s career, celebrating a ten-year collaboration with model Tinotenda Mushore and fifteen-years of Wouldt’s practice as a photographer.

The works presented in Ritual of shapes, are the result of an intense and concentrated creative process developed throughout 2025. A large part of the exhibition features Tinotenda Mushore as the central subject. Over the past decade, the collaboration between Bastiaan Woudt and Mushore has become one of the defining threads of the artist’s practice. Together, they have built a shared visual language grounded in trust, precision, and emotional depth.

For this exhibition, Woudt returned to his archive from the past ten years, revisiting the strongest images of this collaboration. Rather than reproducing them, he extracted key elements and redirected them into a new formal and conceptual territory. The resulting works remain recognisable as part of their long-standing dialogue, yet they are imbued with the patina of time and shaped by the artist’s evolved practice. As Woudt notes, “It is a continuation, not a repetition, a way of carrying that shared history forward with a renewed perspective towards 2026.”

These works unfold as portraits, silhouettes, and studies of the human form, where the body often becomes a structure, a line, or a shape. Color is intentionally absent. Each image is converted by the artist into black and white, a decision that serves abstraction and reduction rather than stylistic effect. By removing color, Woudt strips away a layer of reality, leaving behind essence: lines, geometry, contrast, and character. Black and white becomes a method of focus, a way of distilling the image to what truly matters.

Working within a very narrow framework has long been central to Woudt’s practice. His ongoing challenge is to remain recognisable within a consistent visual language while continually testing new compositions. The act of reinventing an image within the literal frame is both a limitation and a source of freedom: working with restricted means forces precision, and it is precisely this constraint that keeps the work alive and engaging. Ritual of shapes thus reflects fifteen years of the artist’s photographic journey and a decade-long collaboration with Mushore, marking a moment of continuity and renewed perspective rather than an endpoint.