Borja Docavo – Blanca Santos – Sara Willa – Oscar Carretero – Anxel Arias – Parafeno – Mulak Mulak – Rasconse.

“ We are not in nature, but rather we are nature thinking itself. We are matter that feels, suffers, and desires.”

—Donna J. Haraway

This collective exhibition brings together the results of the artistic residencies proposed by Pluto, forming a corpus that explores the experience of life from the perspective of the body. As Byung-Chul Han states, “the body becomes the medium of experience.” Living is therefore understood as an act of experiencing the relationship between the being and the environment in which it coexists—between us and the rest, between our body and the collective body which, to borrow Haraway’s words, are two sides of the same coin.

In the work of the artists of the 3rd edition of the Miss Espacial grant, this desire to highlight vital experience appears as the leitmotif shaping their projects. Through installations, performances, and sculptures, they reveal how existence is felt, endured, and inhabited physically.

Despite their material and formal diversity, the pieces share an interest in the organic. Skin manifests in the canvases extending the flesh in Borja Docavo’s work, or in the cracked paraffin of Blanca Santos. The visceral pulses in Sara Willa’s intestinal assemblages and in Oscar Carretero’s work, situated on a threshold between emotionality and artifice. Light—whether as reconstructive plasma in Anxel Arias’s metal or as digital shimmer in Mulak Mulak’s ecosystem—converses with the penumbra of Parafeno’s recycled panels and the pictorial limbo of Rasconse.

Ultimately, these installations do not merely present bodies—they build spaces that make us aware of our own corporeal being, inviting us to inhabit the shared pulse of what is organic, fragile, and transformative in lived experience.

— Pablo Quesada