畠山直哉氏 グループ展「Metamorphosis: Space and Society in the Idealist Collection」
Until 8 March, Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga will host Metamorphosis: Space and Society in the Idealist Collection, an exhibition which brings together 120 pieces by 58 artists from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia who use photography and video art to document contemporary reality with a critical eye.
The selected works are from the Idealist Collection, which was created 15 years ago and contains pieces by key artists whose work will be displayed at Serrería Belga, including Teresa Margolles (Mexico, 1963), Cristina Lucas (Spain, 1973), Diana Larrea (Spain, 1972), Mladen Stilinovic (Serbia, 1947), Kiluanji Kia Henda (Angola, 1979) and Olaf Breuning (Switzerland, 1970).
The exhibition explores territorial tensions, environmental footprints and the shifting boundaries between the public and the private—areas where the human spirit seeks to assert itself and transform its environment. It also displays the works that have won the Idealist Contemporary Art Award, which was created in 2018 to recognise the talent of young visual artists.
Four areas, four perspectives
The featured pieces are divided into four sections and highlight the changes in contemporary society and its spaces. The first set of works focuses on the geographical tensions which permeate inhabited places: settings where unfulfilled dreams, property development and economic impact come together. Artists like Teresa Margolles (Mexico, 1963), Adrian Melis (Cuba, 1985) and Liu Bolin (China, 1973) reflect on how urban planning, censorship, and landscape transformation influence collective memory and the ways that space is inhabited.
The section “Environmental Paradoxes” brings together pieces which examine the complex relationship between official iconography, advertising and the climate crisis, highlighting the tension between the utopia of progress and the reality of environmental impact. Works by artists such as Ramón Masats (Spain, 1931–2004), Panos Kokkinias (Greece, 1965) and Cecilia Paredes (Peru, 1950) become essential tools for analysing how contemporary town planning shapes collective identity and transforms ecosystems.
The third section, “Everyday Spaces”, shows how spaces which have often come to be regarded as commonplace or with indifference take on a symbolic dimension that reveals the playfulness and political aspects of daily life. The artistic vision of Bárbara Wagner and Benjamín de Burca (Brazil, 1980; Germany, 1975), José María Mellado (Spain, 1966) and Colita (Isabel Steva Hernández, Spain, 1940–2023) turns the ordinary into something extraordinary, exposing a territory where social, emotional, and gender tensions emerge and challenge heteropatriarchal structures, and where the human spirit forges its own path.
The final section, “Human Archaeology”, offers a perspective that goes beyond passive observation of the surroundings and encourages us to explore the visible and invisible vestiges which constitute inhabited spaces. Artists like LUCE (Spain, 1989), Yuval Avital (Israel, 1977) and Anastasia Samoylova (United States, 1984) intervene in these spaces, appropriating and transforming them with an aesthetic language that combines beauty, form and meaning as they cease to be utilitarian backdrops and become canvases where history, memory and human tensions are exposed.
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会期: 2025年12月17日 – 2026年3月8日
会場: Serrería Belga（マドリード）
