FORMS OF PRESENCE: MEDIA LOOP

FORMS OF PRESENCE: MEDIA LOOP

📍 ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture · Carrer d'Espronceda 326, Nau 5, 08027 Barcelona
📅 Opening: Thursday, 1 October 2026 · 19:00–21:30
🗓️ Exhibition open 1–9 October 2026
🎟️ Free entry

ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture presents Forms of Presence: Media Loop, a group exhibition bringing together eight artists who explore how identity is built in the encounter with others — an encounter increasingly mediated today by data, screens and devices.

Through video, ceramics, installation, painting and generative artificial intelligence, the artists trace how media connect us with the other while, at the same time, producing the very images through which we recognise or differentiate ourselves.

Structured as a circuit, the show names its own paradox: media multiply our possibilities of reaching the other without ever guaranteeing that this access becomes a real encounter.

Participating artists:
Elisa de la Torre, Miguel Ripoll, David Feroce, Elvira Martos, Natasha Lelenco, Marla Jacarilla, Edo García and Lorena Ruiz Pellicero.

Curated by Natasha Lelenco and Lorena Pellicero.

About the project

The exhibition marks the culmination of Professional Media Presence (PMP), co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, and opens simultaneously at seven venues in six countries: Finland (Turku and Lapland), Malta, Croatia, Italy, Slovakia and Barcelona.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Practical information

• Free entry
• Exhibition dates: 1–9 October 2026
• Visiting hours: 17:00–19:00, prior registration required at info@espronceda.net
• Opening: 1 October 2026, 19:00–21:30
• Location: Carrer d'Espronceda 326, Nau 5, 08027 Barcelona