Allouche Gallery is pleased to announce A satisfactory philosophy of ignorance amid barking, an exhibition of new works by Spanish artist Felix R. Cid. The opening will be on Thursday, March 6th with a reception from 6–8 PM, and will feature sixteen vivid and tactile works on canvas and fifteen smaller works on paper that transform uncertainty into a dynamic force of creation.

Cid grew up in Madrid and studied art and photography at a young age. He graduated from Yale’s MFA program where he first developed his playful aesthetic language and unconventional process. Cid’s latest body of work emerges from El canpo, a name he coined as a playful distortion of El campo, the Spanish word for “field.” Built within the Mediterranean landscape of Spain, El canpo serves as a retreat from the relentless pace urban life, a sanctuary where nature dictates time.

“After nearly two decades in NYC, I needed a place where technology and the pressure of time weren’t constantly intruding. It’s not about rejecting modernity but rather about distilling experience to its essence in hopes of seeing more clearly,” says Cid.

The exhibition’s title takes inspiration from Richard Feynman, the theoretical physicist who described “a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance” as the foundation of scientific progress—an ethos Cid finds deeply resonant with his own practice. Cid’s work has always been preoccupied with problematizing notions of progress, especially within the framework of modernity.

“My work is a chase—a constant loop of finding and losing, trying and failing, moving forward without always knowing where “forward” is. My work is a pursuit—an endless cycle of discovery and loss, trial and error, movement without a fixed destination. Rather than resist uncertainty, I choose to embrace it. This way of painting—seemingly aimless at times—fuels my curiosity and, in turn, my humanity,” Cid explains.

The playful yet cerebral nature of Cid’s practice extends to his titles, such as Untitled (Pablo don’t look at me like this! You knew If two protons going in opposite directions fly very close to one another within CMS, photons radiated from each can collide together and produce new particles, just as in proton collisions). Cid’s work in A satisfactory philosophy of ignorance amid barking ultimately reframes uncertainty not as an obstacle, but as fertile ground for exploration and transformation.