Paratext #90 with Victor Pérez-Pallarès Setó, Eduard Ruiz and Aura Roig

Under the name Paratext, a monthly programme of presentations by resident artists at Hangar and artists connected to the exchange grant programme takes shape. Through a range of formats, the sessions host projects, research and ongoing working processes, approaching presentation as a space for circulation and exchange rather than as an instance of final outcome or exhibition. Open to the public, these gatherings seek to foster interaction between the artists and the local context.

The next Paratext session will take place on Tuesday, June 30, at 7 p.m. in Hangar’s Sala Ricson.

Projects will be presented by:

Victor Pérez-Pallarès Setó (Medium-term residency)
Born and raised on the Internet, his practice centers on the aesthetic study of micro-phenomena encountered while wandering online. He explores the stylistic reasons and emotional textures that shape communal expressions in virtual spaces, mirroring the functional, compositional, and behavioral patterns of human interfaces. These mechanisms allow him to approach, first through theory, the most fictional definitions of pixelated dictionaries.

Once disconnected from the immaterial outdoors, he works with the traces he has collected, transforming them into exercises and formal explorations. These pieces, which embody the essential qualities of each phenomenon studied, enable an understanding that moves beyond theory, opening a space of transition between the digital and the analog, inviting a sustained and critical immersion.

At Paratext, Victor will present Matching the Freak, an exploration of everything that falls outside the norm without intending to, of erratic and whimsical behavior, and of how what slips through the cracks is, in fact, what holds everything else together. Freaks, glitches, and tics. An opening onto the questions and concerns that have occupied his attention over the past few months.

Eduard Ruiz (Long-term residency)
His artistic practice explores how we inhabit territory and the symbolic and material forms that shape it. He works with maps, official documents, and landscapes printed on banknotes, passports or coins, as well as found materials and residual elements. Through these, he investigates the invisible policies that regulate space and shape the behaviour of, and relationships between, human and non-human living beings. Often rooted in natural environments altered by industrialisation, his work takes the form of installations, sculptures and photographs. A constant in his practice is the use of materials that are considered banal or utilitarian. By removing their conventional meaning, he allows objects intended for specific uses to be seen as autonomous artworks.

Aura Roig (Medium-term residency)
Aura Roig studied Fine Art at the University of Barcelona. They currently live in Berlin. Through painting, Roig blends humor, struggles, and personal experiences into a magical realism where bodies merge with objects and vegetables to explore themes of care, gender, and family roles. On the canvas, the domestic and the absurd coexist, revealing the surreal nature of traditions and everyday life.

At Paratext they will present Tomates, ous i rius, the painting work developed in their studio over the past six months, and they will share the processes and lines of inquiry that have shaped this body of work, in a kind of digital open studio. They will also offer an overview of the projects and exhibitions they have been developing in parallel during this period, and introduce their upcoming solo exhibition, The Worms Are Starting to Move, curated by Olivier Collet. The exhibition will open on June 25 at Prats Nogueras Blanchard in Barcelona as part of Art Nou Primera Visió, and will remain on view until September.