With Breathings, Argote shifts his energy to a creative, generous, and caring voice, one that imagines what we would say if we could speak openly and tenderly through our cities. His paintings on silk have grown out of a decade working in text, including public interventions in Colombia and sculptures that appear to have been plucked right from the city’s streets. Offering phrases like ‘The warm air between us,’ ‘Having your hands holding my fingers,’ and ‘Let’s write the history of hope,’ these paintings are love poems to and from each of us to one another in a world where tenderness and love come first.