This was MADRID31 "Contemporary Phantasmagorias" 2023

The voice and the body are the elements that structure the research of Laia Estruch, an artistic practice located halfway between sculpture and action. The artist understands the voice as an extension of the body capable of synthesizing issues related to language, speech, gender or social structures. In her most recent work, the artist has investigated how urban spaces and their physical structures play an important role in everyday life. Using the 'spoken word', the song, the objects and the publications, her projects analyze the emotional possibilities of the voice to 'capella' and the undramatized body, opening a space for reflection in relation to the performative nature of language, sound recording and its oral archive. She designs sculptural sets conceived as scenes, spaces for experimentation, which allow her to bring the body and the word to the field of action through the voice, sound and gestures.

She has presented her projects at, among other places, the Macba, Barcelona (2012 and 2022), Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona (2014), Párraga Center, Murcia (2016), Pradillo Theater, Madrid (2016), Antic Teatre, Barcelona (2016), Chapelle des the Beaux-Arts, Paris (2017), at the CA2M, Madrid (2017), Picasso Museum, Barcelona (2018), Botí Foundation, Córdoba (2018), CentroCentro, Madrid (2019), Joan Miró Foundation, Espai13, Barcelona (2019), Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico CCEMx (2020) Mexico City, Sâlmon Festival in Barcelona (2020), Poetry Festival i + a Caldes d'Estrac (2020), Grec Festival / Creation and Museums (2020), Joan Brossa Foundation in Barcelona (2020/21), La Virreina Image Centre in Barcelona (2020), Heinrich Ehrhardt Gallery in Madrid (2021 and 2022), 'Embarrat Festival', Trepat Museum in Tàrrega (2021), 'Platform Festival 2021' at the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art (CGAC) in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia (2021), 'Domingo' Festival at the Casa Encendida in Madrid (2021), PUBLICS (2022) in Helsinki, ARCO Fair in Madrid (2022), La Panera Art Centre (2022) in Lleida, in the Thyssen Bornemisza TBA21 collection at the C3A Centre for Contemporary Creation in Andalusia, Córdoba (2022), Sandretto Foundation in Madrid (2022), Ehrhardt-Flórez gallery, Madrid (2022), Cerezales Foundation Antonino and Cinia, León (2022), Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao (2022), Hauser and Wirth Menorca (2023), TEA Tenerife Space of the Arts (2023).

She collaborated with the MACBA educational program from 2016 to 2021 and participated in the Creators in Residence program at Barcelona high schools (2016). She has taught at the EINA school in Barcelona (2022-2024) and at the University of Fine Arts in Barcelona (2022-2024).

His work is present in private and public collections, such as the Banco Sabadell collection, the collection of the Palau i Fabre Foundation Art Center in Caldes de Estrac and the Patrim collection, of the University of Fine Arts of Barcelona and is part of the Heritage Public of the city of Barcelona with the donation of the sculpture 'Playground Scene' installed in the Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Center.

Among the solo exhibitions of de Miguel's work are Shrubs of Nerves as Coral Forests at The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2021); I'm part of this fractured frontier in C3A, Córdoba (2018); Aura Nera at the Santa Mónica Art Center (2016), Barcelona; Ansible in Maisterravalbuena (2015), Madrid; and All knowledge is enveloped in darkness at Kunsthalle Sao Paulo (2015).

His filmography has been shown in numerous museums and institutions internationally and he has recently contributed to the volume "140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth" (2021), edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Her work is part of several public and private collections, including the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Regina de Miguel was born in Malaga, Spain. She lives and works in Berlin.

It is often associated with feminist practices, punk-rock, and queer critique of normative gender constructions. In recent years, his practice has been linked to the forms of transmission and pedagogies of art through workshops and courses that he has directed in collaboration with other artists, among which we could highlight the Kalostra project, in San Sebastián or the one developed in JAI together with Asier Mendizabal and Ibon Aranberri, with the Artium museum, in Vitoria and the Tabakalera art center, in San Sebastián.

Among its performances and projects are: oceanic, Oralités at Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Paris. (2023) Chapter 2 VW, playbill, Torpedo Theater, Amsterdam. Bilbao, Urak Dakar, Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbao. Dream Journal, Rodeo, Mousac, Leon. Aliens are Temporary, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch and Kunstraum Bethanien. Berlin (2022). Unquiet Objects, Disjecta, Portland (2021); Oceanic en Moving Words. Rimi Scenekunst. Stavanger, Norway. Personae, Els Baluart, Palma de Mallorca. The Night of Ideas, MCNARS, Madrid (2021); The statues, Oteiza Foundation, Alzuza (2020); Bodies of Water, 13^th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (2020); pierced by; Spanish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, together with Sergio Prego (2019); I Never Said Umbrella, Tabakalera, Donostia (2018); A construction… CA2M, Madrid (2018); ideorhythmias, MACBA, Barcelona (2017); Itziar Okariz, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2017)

Among the many awards he has received are the National Photography Award (1999), the Community of Madrid Photography Award (2004), the PHotoESPAÑA Award (2012), and the ENAIRE Foundation Career Award (2022). In addition to being named 'Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France' (2012) and more recently, in 2019, the Spanish Ministry of Culture awarded him the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts.

As an author, he has published a dozen books on photography and various audiovisual works where narrative and image complement each other, including "From Where No Returns" a 40-minute film creation, acquired by the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía.

Director and founder of the cult magazine "El Canto de la Tripulación" (1989-1997), and co-founder of Cabeza de Chorlito (2011-2023), publishing house under which he has published some of his works: Believers' paradise2011; slideshows2012; MOTO, 2015; the magazine trilogy Motorcycle Family Circus (2016-2021) y Nomad File (2023)

In "Fantasies in the Prado," his latest exhibition, he creates his own imaginary world based on the art gallery housed at the Prado Museum, using the technique of multiple photographic exhibitions on analog film. The exhibition, which has a eponymous catalog published by the Factory, was produced by the ENAIRE Foundation and won the Audience Award at the 2022th edition of the PHotoESPAÑA 24 international festival, which is on display at the Naves de Gamazo in Santander until September 2023, XNUMX.

He has published numerous works, including La Facción Caníbal. History of Illustrated Vandalism, Nothing is true, everything is allowed. The Day Kurt Cobain Met William Burroughs or Some Dark and Dangerous Things. The book of the mask and the masked, which became the exhibition The Mask Never Lies (CCCB, 2022), of which he was one of its curators. His latest work is All the Hate I Had Inside. Some of his works have been published in France. He has also participated in prestigious festivals, such as the Occulture Conference (Berlin, 2022) and prefaced authors such as Alan Moore, Hakim Bey, Jon Savage, William S. Burroughs, Iain Sinclair, Pío Baroja, Emilio Carrère or Aleister Crowley, among others. .

His most recent work insists on the performativity of the encounter as a space for transformation. In this process of transformation, the "other" resides within oneself, establishing blurred boundaries between the known and the unknown, the object and the subject, the animate and the inanimate. Her work seeks to escape logocentric and anthropocentric logic, where human knowledge itself becomes vulnerable to other enigmatic and complex ecosystems.

Maria Jerez combines the production of her artistic work with educational, curatorial and editorial projects.

Regular collaborator of the El Dorado Flamenco Society of Barcelona. He directs the collection "Flamenco and popular culture" at Athenaica editorial. He also works with flamenco dancers, singers and guitarists (Israel Galván, Rocío Márquez, Tomás de Perrate, Niño de Elche, Alfredo Lagos, etc.) In 2020 he directed the film Nine Sevillas and in 2022 the film seven jerels. He has been curator of «Helios Gomez. Days of Rage» for the Virreina Centro de la Imagen in Barcelona and the Espacio Santa Clara in Seville and «Choreographies, Dances and Dances of Vicente Escudero» at the Centro Lorca in Granada, the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid and the Espacio Santa Clara in Seville. In 2022 In 2021 he publishes with the publishing house Àrcadia Wittgenstein, the Flemings and the Gypsies. The MNCARS presented in 2022 a review of its work under the title troubadour machines.

In 2023 he exhibits A for Archipelago in Es Baluard in Palma de Mallorca; as curator, he has presented «popular» at the IVAM in Valencia and has finished the film of horse and guitars.