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, she is a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She works primarily through the audiovisual medium, combined with other artistic forms such as transmedia environments, performance, and installation, activating the possibilities of blending contexts and diverse practices that inform research into topics such as digital bodies, digital labor, the screen-image, the performed archive, and collective thinking.

She has participated as an artist-in-residence with exhibition projects or performances at L’Escocesa, Hangar, Unzip, Konvent, Lo Pati, Fabra i Coats, Convent de Sant Agustí, Bòlit Girona, Santa Mònica, Cultural Rizoma, Loop Festival, Panoràmic Festival, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, L’Estruch, Museu de Granollers, Roca Umbert, among others.