FLUID CRACKS STONE by Núria Nia

FLUID CRACKS STONE is a project by Núria Nia inspired by the new imaginaries opened up by telematic culture and its associated tools, both on a material and symbolic level. Through a set of possibilities linked to the translation between the physical world, the virtual world, and their representations, hands, gestures, and ways of knowing the world unfold together with slime, the fluid capable of cracking our permanently connected experience.

The exhibition FLUID CRACKS STONE marks the culmination of a research process developed by the artist within the framework of the Cultural Rizoma 2024–2025 research and production support program. The project forms part of a broader body of work and highlights some of the key themes running through Núria Nia’s practice, such as the materiality of the Internet and its relationship to the sustainability of our world.

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Núria Nia (Palau Solità i Plegamans, Barcelona, 1986) is a visual artist and researcher, trained in film, digital art, and communication, and a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona.

Her artistic practice initially emerges from the audiovisual medium and expands from video creation and the video essay into installation, sculpture, performance, textual publications, and other forms of intervention in everyday media, always anchored by a core concern: the relationship and the space between the physical and the digital; between what is connected and disconnected from the Internet; between collective memory and the archive shared online; and between a past of cables and satellites and the ghost of collapse that permeates the imaginary of a possible future.

She has presented several solo and group exhibitions at both national and international levels.