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Creatures of the rural present
Creatures of the Rural Present is a sculptural and installation project that reimagines monsters for today’s countryside. It draws on Catalan folklore and village parades while weaving in textures from science fiction, fantasy cinema, and puppetry. The creatures embody fear, strangeness, and humor as ways to approach what escapes logic in the rural landscape.They are…
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Collapsing Better /Col·lapsar Millor
Collapsing Better was an installation at MAMT (Museum of Modern art of Tarragona) 2025, combining wall drawings, found materials, and objects from the museum’s own collection. The exhibition questioned the role of museums today, proposing porous and open forms of institutionality.Its atmosphere was deliberately relaxed, offering an accessible and welcoming entry point for audiences.The project…
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Recerca sobre taules / Research on tables
This project delves into the ways we use, build, and occupy our cultural, artistic, and museum spaces. By focusing on the table, questions arise about the bodies that move through these spaces, their accessibility, and the human and non-human ecosystems that surround them.
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Ecosistemes creatius / comunitats resilients
Una activitat en el marc del cicle 398m3 a Valls el 2023 després del tancament de l’emblemàtic espai d’art contemporani, La Capella de Sant Roc. Aquesta activitat va ser una invitació a treballar col·lectivament i compartir idees sobre com aquests espais, xarxes i comunitats creatives funcionen, poden funcionar millor i ser més presents a les…
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Transition Graphics
Transition Graphics is a graphic project dedicated exclusively to environmental related issues. More specifically it tackles ideas around climate change, mass extinction and societal collapse. Using an Instagram feed as it’s main channel of publication it presents drawings on different recent topics. It’s a tool to talk about and share a growing sense of emergency…
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Castorum Lunares
The ongoing research studies the historical interaction between beavers and humans in regards to water management, highlighting a competition that has persisted for thousands of years. This project uses the examination of this conflict to better understand key aspects of Western civilization. The study has thus far been presented in a talk format.
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Oficina interespècies
The Office of Interspecies Relations, created in Sant-Cugat, Barcelona, aims to explore and understand our relationship with other species. Focusing on the issue of increased Wild Boar population in urban areas, this initiative hosts a series of activities and meetings with various local groups. They also organize performances that help foster a comprehensive understanding of…
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Efecte Vora
Efecte Vora was a guided tour through the park of the Delta of the LLobregat river in the Barcelona area. The project consist in placing a series of actors dressed with strange leaf ghost costumes whom emitted a voice that explained the particular political, historical and ecological situation of the area.
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Fireplace
Fireplace és una plataforma cultural gestionada per artistes ab l’objectiu de promoure l’intercanvi de coneixement i creativitat en el context de Barcelona. Amb un programa d’activitats, caminades, tallers i un espai de treball compartit, Fireplace se centra en la importància de la cultura en una era post digital com a catalitzador de canvi i pensament…
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Cow, Bull, Cattle
Instal·lació sonora produïda per la residència “Welcome to the Neighborhood” al poble Askeaton Irlanda. Aquesta peça sorgeix d’un procés de recerca en el teixit local de la localitat i acompanyar una caça local de bisó pels rius i camps del territori.
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How to get lost in Alaska
How to get lost in Alaska is a slice of a long term investigation as a utopian life pursuit. An in-depth analysis of two central ideas of his work: on one end, the historical phases and functions of institutions such as zoos,natural history museums, research laboratories, art museums.. and on the other, contemporary and historical…
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The Last Institution
The Last Institution was a satirical fictitious organization staged for the exhibition of Sala d’Art Jove 2011. It took form on social media and various group events. The project intended to do the opposite of what would be expected from a serious public art institution at the time.
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Welcome to our Museum Please Come in and Smell the Flowers
This project was an active laboratory about how in-formal and non-professional relationships can be a fertile ground to produce art and culture. The result was various events and gatherings in institutional and non-institutional settings that investigated what was the purpose and meaning of producing culture.
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