Ready to Rebel

Ariadna Guiteras graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and has a Masters in Artistic Production and Research from the same university. Her artistic practice uses performance, text, drawing and installation to investigate the limits of human and non-human bodies and their relationships. Guiteras is interested in the Renaissance concept of the ‘porous body’, a medical theory that sees skin as a porous boundary, easily pierced and difficult to protect. A term that, in Guiteras’ work, alludes to bodies as vulnerable and open materials, constantly relating either to other bodies, or to the physical, telematic or ideological environment. In addition, she also explores the body in relation to gestation and maternity, to queer notions and to other concepts such as the links with the belly, the embrace and the body as home-shelter.

Solo exhibitions include Chalton Gallery, London (2016) and Sala Muncunill, Terrassa (2017). Her performances have been held in spaces and festivals such as Second Home, Berlin (2010), Nau Estruch, Sabadell (2013), MACBA, Barcelona (2014), Arts Santa Mònica and Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (2016), Museu de la Pell, Vic (2017), CentroCentro, Madrid (2018), CA2M, Móstoles (2019), La Capella, Barcelona (2020) and Kosmopolis Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona (2023). Her work is included in the MACBA Collection.