Still of "The Terminal Beach" (2024-2025), courtesy of Anna Moreno and Bernardo Zanotta
Exhibition
From 13 February to 5 July 2026
Anna Moreno. The Third Twist
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Three projects by Ricardo Bofill and three stories by James Graham Ballard form The Terminal Beach, the final instalment of a trilogy that reflects on temporality through utopian architecture and the potential of its speculative imagination.
In The Third Twist, the artist uses the format of the road movie to document the current state of a nomadic settlement built in 1979 by Bofill in the Algerian Sahara, under the commission of the then president Houari Boumédienne. The construction falls within the framework of the architect’s utopian period, when his studio (RBTA) was an amalgam of architects, poets, painters and others. What was meant to be a complex built according to modern criteria ultimately remained an unfinished project, revealing the tension between the dream of the time and the reality of modern colonial legacies.
The Terminal Beach is a collaborative work with Bernardo Zanotta and has received support from Amarte Fonda, Mondriaan Fonds, VEGAP, Hangar and Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura.
Anna Moreno (1984) is a visual artist working between Barcelona and The Hague. Her research-based artistic practice focuses on the unfinished nature of (historical and future) events, whilst questioning the processes of documentation during post-production. Her research mixes concepts from finance, utopian architecture and speculative literature through installations, films or live events.
Moreno has been artist in residence at institutions around the world such as the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (The Netherlands), SASG (Seoul), HIAP (Helsinki), Salzamt (Linz, AT) and Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella, IT). She has shown at MOCAB (Belgrade), SAS Geumcheon (Seoul), Fundació Joan Miró and 1646 (The Hague), among others. She is a lecturer and publishes essays on art, politics and architecture in specialised magazines such as CARTHA.
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This exhibition falls within the framework of Barcelona 2026 World Capital of Architecture.
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MACBA Thirty
We celebrate Year Thirty of an infinite MACBA that projects the future as a space for revision and possibility: of taking up what was left unfinished, updating what needs it and projecting anew everything that can still be transformed.
