The March 2025 monthly Cover Story “Hello Everyone from the Museo Reina Sofía” is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org (after March this story will be archived here).
“Curated by Latitudes, “Hello Everyone”—Laia Estruch’s largest exhibition to date—transforms the Museo Reina Sofía, in Madrid, into a resonant space for voice and sculptural presence. Across 27 works spanning more than a decade, Estruch shows how she has developed a performance language that is both physical and sonic, sculpting space with, and for, the force of vocalisation.” → Continue reading
Cover Stories are published monthly on Latitudes’ homepage featuring past, present, or forthcoming projects, research, texts, artworks, exhibitions, films, objects, or field trips related to our curatorial projects and activities.
Claudia Pagès's video installation “Gerundi Circular” (2021) is on display at the Saló dels Miralls (Mirror Hall) in Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house between 18 February and April 6, 2025. This historic hall features allegorical ceiling paintings and texts celebrating art and music.
The installation was commissioned in 2021 for the exhibition “Panorama 21: Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls” (Notes for an Eye Fire), curated by Latitudes and Hiuwai Chu, that took place at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona between October 2021–February 2022. Originally produced by MACBA and ELAMOR, it was incorporated into the Government of Catalonia National Collection of Contemporary Art in 2022, and deposited as a long-term loan to MACBA Collection.
Following Pagès’s solo show “Abajo el puerto suena nino-nino, y yo arriba pipí” at The RYDER in Madrid in June 2022, the 360º video installation was presented at Tabakalera in Donostia, Basque Country (September 2022–January 2023).
Mariana Cánepa Luna of Latitudes wrote the wall text for the “Panorama 21: Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls” exhibition, which read:
Claudia Pagès’ mesmerising new video installation revolves around global maritime routes, legal jargon, and the relentless flow of commerce and people that has characterized capitalism in action. Filmed in a seamless 360° loop, the footage blends the rhythmic gestures of three performers and layers of handwritten texts into a series of music-video sequences.
The panoramic narrative is set around three distinctive and interconnected sites related to the past and present of Barcelona’s commercial port: the ship-shaped business hub of the World Trade Center, the 19th-century customs building, and the harbour breakwater.
Completing the installation is a cardboard carpet printed with snippets of phrases derived from law manuals in which Pagès mixes up gerunds (a verb form that does not inflect gender or number) and considers bodies as both objects and actants. “Gerundi Circular” bears witness to the logistical intricacies of the city as a seemingly frictionless interface between the open space of the sea and manmade infrastructures, behaviours, and languages.
Acknowledging that some visitors may have been unable to visit the exhibition due to COVID-19 restrictions, significant efforts were made to enhance the online presence of the 2021 exhibition. The website was designed as a repository documenting the exhibition-making process, featuring participant and artwork profiles written by the curators, images of related works, and behind-the-scenes photographs and videos. However, with the launch of MACBA’s new website in 2024, artwork descriptions disappeared, and the connection of the above-mentioned sections with the exhibition for which they were created is no longer available. Part can be found here.
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ABOUT LAIA ESTRUCH
Laia Estruch (Barcelona, 1981) has had solo exhibitions at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (2023); Spiritvessel, Espinavessa (2022); Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona (2020); Capella de Sant Roc, Valls (2019); and at Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2019).
Recent group exhibitions include “After Paradise”, Kortrijk Triennial, Belgium (2024); “Topalekuak”, Tabakalera, Donostia (2024); Patio by ZONAMACO, ABC Art Baja, San José del Cabo, Mexico (2024); “I drank words submerged in dreams”, 23 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala (2023); “After the Mediterranean”, Hauser & Wirth, Menorca (2023); “Panorama 21. Notes for an Eye Fire”, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2021) and “La cuestión es ir tirando”, Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City (2020).
Estruch has performed in numerous public events within the framework of exhibitions, biennials and festivals, including “Segar i cantar”, Lo Pati, Amposta (2024); “The Listening Affect”, Galeria da Biodiversidade, Porto (2023); “Passat / Present”, Centre d’Interpretació d’Art Rupestre de la Roca dels Moros del Cogul, Lleida (2022); 10th Deleste Festival, Bombas Gens, Valencia (2022); “The Journeying Stream”, TBA21, Sotos de la Albolafia, Córdoba (2022), Bianyal 2021, Vall de Bianya (2021) or “Plataforma. Festival de Artes Performativas”, Parque de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela (2021), amongst other.
In 2022 Estruch won the 6th Premio Cervezas Alhambra de Arte Emergente (Alhambra Beer Award for Emerging Art) with the work “Zócalo”, and was awarded the 2021 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona (City of Barcelona Prize) in the category of Visual Arts.
Works in public space include “Moat-2 / Playground Scene” (2017–18) at Fabra i Coats Fàbrica de Creació, Barcelona; and the recently completed Concomitentes public commission “Aguas Vivas”, at Llanos de Penagos, Cantabria (2024).
Estruch has a BA in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona (2010) and studied Performance Art and Sound Art at The Cooper Union, New York (2010). She regularly lectures at the Facultat de Belles Arts, Universitat de Barcelona.
Her work is represented by Galería Ehrhardt Flórez, Madrid.
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The February 2025 monthly Cover Story “Bananas, Potatoes, Ria, Río: Jorge Satorre at CA2M” is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org (after February this story will be archived here).
“Jorge Satorre’s “Triplay” (2025) serves as the entrance to his exhibition “Ria”, currently on view at the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), curated by Latitudes. Two large wooden doors, embedded with metal casts of bananas and potatoes, form this threshold. Everyday objects are laden with both mundane associations and personal significance.” → Continue reading
Cover Stories are published monthly on Latitudes’ homepage featuring past, present, or forthcoming projects, research, texts, artworks, exhibitions, films, objects, or field trips related to our curatorial projects and activities.
Max Andrews’ review of Gabriel Chaile's exhibition “Contemplando es como fuimos cambiando” at Tabakalera in San Sebastian/Donostia, goes live on the frieze website.
“‘Contemplating Is How We Have Been Changing’, Tabakalera’s survey of Argentine artist Gabriel Chaile, deftly shows his ability to transform humble materials into vessels of ancestral knowledge and familial intimacy. The exhibition includes several of Chaile’s characteristic anthropomorphic and zoomorphic adobe sculptures, yet it also features a selection of impressive earlier works, and hints at new forays into film narrative and mythmaking.” Continue reading
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January 2025 cover story on www.lttds.org
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