To Embody the Lingering
To Embody the Lingering, an exhibition of the artworks by the finalists of the Miquel Casablancas 2026, organized by Sant Andreu Contemporani.
Opening: Friday 12 June at 19.00
Ceremony for the Miquel Casablancas Awards 2026 at 20.00
Artwork: Mariona Cañadas and Pedro Murúa, Viva Iniesta, Mario Manso, Martaroc.work, Usama Mossa Chaty, Mourae, Laura Palau Barreda, Helena Ripoll, Francesc Ruiz Abad, Marta van Tartwijk
Dossiers: Project Production: Marc Anglès, Elsa Casanova, Lucas Marcos Barquilla, Aura Roig; Research: Maria Rosa Aránega, Aïda Escarré, Lior Zalis; Graphic Communication: MARGEM, Marian Vélez, Miguel Vides
They say that the best things always occur slowly, unhurriedly. They don’t come from a fast-paced world, they aren’t the fruit of hasty judgements or capricious decisions, such as those that come about in the atrocious arenas to which present-day geopolitics has accustomed us. They happen without the impatience with which success is pursued, without the planned obsolescence that dominates everything. Indeed, to persist in slowness implies advocating another way of imagining time, but also another way of thinking about space. To inhabit implies occupying or remaining in a place, lingering there. This lingering, in turn, leads to the creation of space. Inhabiting this place, embodying it, is what the artists, shortlisted from the Miquel Casablancas 2026 call for proposals and presented in this exhibition, do. They do so as an antithesis of the colonial, extractive and genocidal agendas that prefigure the territory as a battlefield, as a place to conquer, regulate, segregate or profit from. They do so by restoring the experience and material character to the space. These are territories that are not possessed but embodied in practices and in time. They are not represented but experienced. They do not fix an identity but establish a relationship with transit. To embody this inhabiting is to turn into material what was previously an abstract boundary, for its continuity is registered in bodies.
