The poetic intention of…

Mireia Sallarès traveled through Mexico with a camera and a neon sign. Interviewing numerous women of different ages and social backgrounds, the project moves between conversations that address everything that is often left unsaid but also, and primarily, the ways of being a woman. How this supposedly intimate and private experience functions as a highly precise political device. Thus, sexuality is placed in the realm of public pleasure and within mechanisms of ideological, religious, and cultural transaction and control.

Daniel G. Andújar has compiled phrases, war cries, political messages, and slogans from different ideologies. Although they are often calls for dissent that denounce class, gender, or racial subjugation, they reveal their nature as political rhetoric. A singular mechanism of thought that social networks and digital media, driven by algorithmic logic, have intensified.

Through their shapes, varying volumes, and a play on scale, the inflatable sculptures of Eva Fàbregas Oozing can alter our perception of ourselves and the space they inhabit, proposing new ways of feeling and experiencing the world beyond language.

oriol vilapuig has created a fresco on life and death that revisits the great pictorial tradition. Following the path opened by Bosch, he assembles a collage of excessive figures and grotesque characters in motion, reminding us of the brevity of life. A contemporary imago mundi.

Helicon, by Fito Conesa, is an invocation to the end of the world. The relationship between music and landscape allows him, in this and many of his works, to craft statements whose meaning surpasses the conventional, coming closer to the mystical and the spiritual, enabling him to discover his poetic intention and share it with the public.

In Estil Internacional (Mur d’Ònix) [International Style (Onyx Wall)], Lúa Coderch reproduces the onyx wall of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, built in 1929 for the Barcelona International Exposition. The work reflects on the paradox hidden behind the concept of “historical present” and touches on how the city has been built, projecting moments of time that the city wished to commemorate which have inevitably become outdated.

The sun is an object that permeates our lives, and Pedro Torres approaches it from different places in his work entitled “House of the Sun”. In this piece, we will discover his interest in the sun, light and time, understanding how through aesthetics and concepts he situates his work in relation with the public who observes it.

Max de Esteban reflects on the structures of contemporary capitalism, artificial intelligence and the political problems that it poses. His work seeks to point to a convergence between artistic poetics and scientific language.