“La Màquina i el Fantasma” Oriol Arnedo

Next Wednesday, December 3, we will open The Machine and the Ghost, an installation and a publication that present Oriol Arnedo’s research project developed within the framework of the Barcelona Crea – Homesession 2025 grant.

The exhibition will be open to visitors on the 3rd from 6 to 9 pm, and on the 4th and 5th, from 6 to 8 pm.

Smoke rising and scattering. Shaking machines. Deafening looms. Fire advancing. Barricades rising. Shadows, monsters, and ghosts roaming the city. The Machine and the Ghost delves into Barcelona’s industrial legacy through a speculative narrative that blends archive, memory, and fiction. Taking the machine as its central axis—its technical, symbolic, political, and spiritual dimensions—the project explores the imaginative potential of the technological artifact in friction with the city’s historical and cultural memory.

The proposal constructs a visual fiction that traces the remains of archival material and living memory, setting personal and collective narratives in dialogue. In this aesthetic and poetic fiction, history diverts, mutates, and takes shape in new material artifacts—objects emerging from the symbolic ruins of the nineteenth century.

With the intention of activating the past rather than explaining it, The Machine and the Ghost proposes a living and mutating narrative, where the city reveals its technological ghosts as new ways of relating memory, matter, and imagination.

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Oriol Arnedo Casas (Barcelona, 1993) develops a practice situated at the intersection of technology, matter, and environment. Autonomous artifacts, absurd machines that come to life, technological organisms… A restless, mechanized desire to engage with the surroundings connects his objects. His installations explore the machine as a space from which to question power structures, challenge established production models, and imagine alternative forms of life and coexistence. His work is marked by a critical exploration of technology and its relationship to territory, context, and contemporary structures of domination.

Recent exhibitions include Dismantling the Machine (Dilalica, Barcelona, 2025), Let’s Play with Chaos (Aram Gallery, London, 2022), and No-time Zone (Jupiter Woods, London, 2022). He is a long-term resident at Hangar (2024–2026), has been selected by Sala d’Art Jove 2025, and has collaborated with CCCB Lab.