Carlos Fentanes

Hello, 
Thank you for submitting to The Gathered Gallery. We appreciate the time and effort it takes to submit an application.
The programming for the coming months has been completed and we regret to inform you that we are unable to feature you at this time. You are welcome to reapply for future programming opportunities.
Thank you for your support of The Gathered Gallery, we wish you the best of luck with your creative practice!
Happy art making, 

I received this letter, as many others that I’ve received in the last year, so why this is different? Well, I looked through my notebooks, mails and register notes and there was nothing about any application to this gallery. Certainly, I contacted them because it’s one of the 100 galleries project but beside that I’ll never apply to them as far as I can recall, and I received this mail twice… twice!

Maybe something it’s working beyond my own work: some posts are starting to spread their wings and fly by themselves. I don’t know if that is good or bad, after all I still haven’t had a gallery representation and still haven’t received any answer for most of my submissions but letters like this one that came literally out of nothing give me some hope. I wonder if somebody had ever received a letter like this one without applying. I don’t know but maybe there’s going to be a time when I’m going to receive a letter from MoMA about something that I never ask before.