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- Place
- Espai 13
- Curated by
- Alejandro Alonso Díaz
Espai 13 will enter 2026 with a season that enhances its calling as an experimental space that pays continual attention to emerging practices, this year expanding to include an explicit reading of the architectural fact in contemporary art. Alejandro Alonso Díaz, founder of the Fluent space in Santander and a figure noted for his ability to articulate theory, writing and curatorial practice, will be the curator. His proposal will examine the invisible processes that sustain the spaces we inhabit and how we move through them. The season will showcase cross-disciplinary conversations, combining contemporary art, architecture and the way in which the body relates to buildings, their folds and tensions.
Alonso Díaz's starting point is research into the cyclical logic that organises our days (the constant flow between light and darkness, activity and rest), as well as the energy transfers that determine logistics, consumption and lifestyles. This perspective will incorporate a dimension often omitted from architectural narratives: the circulation of energy understood in both material and symbolic terms. According to the curator, the season has been designed as 'a space for material, systemic, emotional, administrative and social negotiation, where energy also encompasses negative space, manifesting itself as decadence, rest and deficiency.' The exhibition therefore becomes a living organism, sensitive to the rhythms running through it, imbalances and the ways in which spaces condition what we can and cannot do.
The selected artists extend the bonds between Espai 13 and the local scene, while also opening windows to other creative geographies and reinforcing the dialogue between architecture, artistic practices and invisible ecologies. The season will begin with Huaqian Zhang and conclude with Víctor Ruiz Colomer, two of Barcelona's most important creators today. Also noteworthy are site-specific projects by Michael Kleine from Berlin and Ghislaine Leung from London, both of whom are offering alternative perspectives that challenge and expand the curator's narrative while also exploring how energy circulates through spaces and which structures, whether visible or hidden, determine our coexistence. The season will include an exceptional intervention by the artist and editor Camilla Wills in the Fundació Joan Miró's foyer, as well as a publication developed with her publishing house, Divided Publishing. These elements will jointly shape a year for Espai 13 that cements its position as a laboratory of ideas, rhythms and architectural imaginations, where contemporary practices can reimagine the world through the spaces we inhabit.
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