Audiovisual design as a territory

This exhibition proposes a journey through different audiovisual practices that share a common starting point: audiovisual design understood as a territory for research, observation, reflection and construction of meaning on contemporary society.

The works presented – all conceived and developed within the framework of the moving image – address issues of social impact from multiple, non-hierarchical approaches. Far from a single reading, the pieces form an open space of views that dialogue between the political and the intimate, between the collective and the personal, between explicit discourse and poetic suggestion.

In the field of audiovisual design, the exhibition highlights a specific way of understanding reality: a practice that combines critical thinking, artistic sensibility and formal experimentation. Documentary, video clip, video essay, animation and hybrid formats coexist as tools to explore new ways of narrating, representing and questioning the world we inhabit.

The pieces were made by students in the second, third and fourth years of BAU’s audiovisual design programme, as well as by students on the master’s degree in Stop-Motion Animation. Far from being closed exercises, the works are inscribed in a context of artistic research and experimentation in which process, risk and position-taking are central elements.

Beyond the themes addressed, the exhibition underlines the audiovisual as a field of research and thought. The proposals stand out for their exploration of languages, the rupture of narrative conventions and a clear desire to strain formats, rhythms and visual and sound structures.

The screen is here not just a display device, but an active space of friction and reflection. The images are completed in the viewer’s gaze, inviting them to construct their own reading and to rethink the relationship with screens as places from which to think critically about contemporary society.