The March 2025 monthly Cover Story “Hello Everyone from the Museo Reina Sofía” is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org (after March this story will be archived here).
“Curated by Latitudes, “Hello Everyone”—Laia Estruch’s largest exhibition to date—transforms the Museo Reina Sofía, in Madrid, into a resonant space for voice and sculptural presence. Across 27 works spanning more than a decade, Estruch shows how she has developed a performance language that is both physical and sonic, sculpting space with, and for, the force of vocalisation.” → Continue reading
Cover Stories are published monthly on Latitudes’ homepage featuring past, present, or forthcoming projects, research, texts, artworks, exhibitions, films, objects, or field trips related to our curatorial projects and activities.
ABOUT LAIA ESTRUCH
Laia Estruch (Barcelona, 1981) has had solo exhibitions at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (2023); Spiritvessel, Espinavessa (2022); Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona (2020); Capella de Sant Roc, Valls (2019); and at Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2019).
Recent group exhibitions include “After Paradise”, Kortrijk Triennial, Belgium (2024); “Topalekuak”, Tabakalera, Donostia (2024); Patio by ZONAMACO, ABC Art Baja, San José del Cabo, Mexico (2024); “I drank words submerged in dreams”, 23 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala (2023); “After the Mediterranean”, Hauser & Wirth, Menorca (2023); “Panorama 21. Notes for an Eye Fire”, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2021) and “La cuestión es ir tirando”, Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City (2020).
Estruch has performed in numerous public events within the framework of exhibitions, biennials and festivals, including “Segar i cantar”, Lo Pati, Amposta (2024); “The Listening Affect”, Galeria da Biodiversidade, Porto (2023); “Passat / Present”, Centre d’Interpretació d’Art Rupestre de la Roca dels Moros del Cogul, Lleida (2022); 10th Deleste Festival, Bombas Gens, Valencia (2022); “The Journeying Stream”, TBA21, Sotos de la Albolafia, Córdoba (2022), Bianyal 2021, Vall de Bianya (2021) or “Plataforma. Festival de Artes Performativas”, Parque de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela (2021), amongst other.
In 2022 Estruch won the 6th Premio Cervezas Alhambra de Arte Emergente (Alhambra Beer Award for Emerging Art) with the work “Zócalo”, and was awarded the 2021 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona (City of Barcelona Prize) in the category of Visual Arts.
Works in public space include “Moat-2 / Playground Scene” (2017–18) at Fabra i Coats Fàbrica de Creació, Barcelona; and the recently completed Concomitentes public commission “Aguas Vivas”, at Llanos de Penagos, Cantabria (2024).
Estruch has a BA in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona (2010) and studied Performance Art and Sound Art at The Cooper Union, New York (2010). She regularly lectures at the Facultat de Belles Arts, Universitat de Barcelona.
Her work is represented by Galería Ehrhardt Flórez, Madrid.
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The January 2023 monthly Cover Story “Gerundi Circular” is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org
“Happy New Year! This month’s Cover Story focusses on Claudia Pagès’s Gerundi Circular (2021), a video installation that was commissioned for the exhibition Panorama 21: Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls (Notes for an Eye Fire), curated by Latitudes and Hiuwai Chu for the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). The work was recently incorporated into the MACBA Collection via a purchase by the Government of Catalonia for the National Collection of Contemporary Art.” Continue reading
After January 2023 this story will be archived here.
Cover Stories are published on a monthly basis on Latitudes’ homepage featuring past, present or forthcoming projects, research, texts, artworks, exhibitions, films, objects or field trips related to our curatorial projects and activities.
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‘TOUR DE FORCE’ © Joan Morey. Foto: Noemi Jariod | Cortesía del artista y del Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). |
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(↑ ↓) Sala dedicada al proyecto ‘TOUR DE FORCE’ en la exposición ‘COLAPSO. Máquina célibe’ de Joan Morey en Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, 31 enero–6 septiembre 2020. © Joan Morey. Fotografías: Roberto Ruiz | Cortesía del artista y Casal Solleric.
‘Máquina posible’ (2020) consiste en la reactivación, adaptación y actualización de la obra dramática ‘TOUR DE FORCE’ (2017), que trazaba de manera poética varios recorridos por la breve historia del sida, desde la aparición de la enfermedad y su conversión en pandemia a finales del siglo pasado hasta las parafilias generadas alrededor de la transmisión y la difusión del virus que la provoca, el VIH. Dos de las intérpretes originales se confinan ahora en el espacio doméstico de la planta noble del dieciochesco edificio de Can Balaguer.
La consuetudinaria estructura en actos rige una vez más la formalización de la performance, ideada para dos cuerpos, una sola voz y un acompañamiento musical. En este caso las interpretaciones femeninas se ven punteadas por interludios ejecutados en directo desde el imponente órgano que ocupa la gran Sala de Música en Can Balaguer.
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