Paratext #88 with Oriol Arnedo Casas, Ali Arévalo and Nicolas Pasquereau
This name, Paratext, hides a monthly program of performances by artists in residence at Hangar as well as artists on exchange grants. They present, in different formats, specific projects or parts of their work. The sessions are always open to the public with the purpose of enabling interaction with the artists themselves.
The next Paratext session will take place on Tuesday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in Hangar’s Sala Ricson.
Projects will be presented by:
Oriol Arnedo Casas (Long-Term Residency)
Oriol’s practice navigates the shifting and malleable realms of technology and nature. His sculptural compositions interrogate the realities that surround us and explore the capacity of performative objects to generate new imaginaries.
Autonomous artifacts, absurd machines that come to life, technological organisms… A restless, mechanized desire to engage with the environment connects his objects. This embodies the idea of mechanized, rudimentary living matter in the ultra-technological era. The machine, in his work, does not adopt a functional role but an imaginary one in our lives. Within the context of socio-climatic crisis, his work offers a critical perspective on the Western conception of nature and seeks to create new narratives that help redefine our relationship with the environment.
Ali Arévalo (Long-Term Residency)
Ali Arévalo is an artist, researcher, and educator. Their practice envisions non-binary, queer, and interspecies futures in alliance with technology. They create temporal archaeologies that bridge pasts and futures, crafting fantasy worlds as emancipatory tools for dissent. Through this, they construct universes that take the form of soundscapes, performances, audiovisual pieces, texts, and sculptures. Imagination serves as both the backbone and dismantling force of their work, allowing them to explore times twisted into nonlinear temporalities. Arévalo works with the fragility of materials, experimenting with biomaterials that evoke scabs, skins, and living fragments—hybrid, sticky creatures. Through these elements, they address the vulnerability and mutability of bodies. Their work unfolds an imaginary of transformations, doors, thresholds, keys, and fantastical hybridizations, inviting us to dream of other worlds. Some of their creations blur and fade away, while others endure as echoes and traces in memory.
Nicolas Pasquereau (CEAAC and Hangar with Lumbung Press)
Through design fiction, Nicolas Pasquereau’s practice supports collective action, where stories and forms become tools for rebalancing, empathy, and shared understanding. His approach, both utopian and pragmatic, consists of imagining critical tools, joyful fictions, and concrete solutions to sketch the contours of desirable worlds. His projects invite audiences to act together, to experiment, and to collectively rethink the narratives that surround us.
