ARCADI BALLESTER BENAIRES (Tarragona, 1984), studied Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country and currently works and lives in Maresme (Barcelona). In his work one can perceive a great interest in cinematographic writing and painting as imbricated languages, which end up combining in the process of creation of his works. At present, his painting can be seen as a continuous attempt to raise an image through the peripheral shards of reality. Elements such as auric vision, apnoea or fasting are fundamental in his way of understanding pictorial dance, as a language that unfolds through diffuse preforms, embryos of meaning.
MARIA FREIRE MONTANÉ (Granollers, 1995), born and educated in the Vall del Montseny, is a multidisciplinary Catalan artist, she graduated in Art and Design at the Escola Massana. Today she is best known for her pictorial work, which she has been working on from an early age, but which she did not share publicly until just three years ago. Her artistic practice branches out into various related and connected disciplines, from theatre and performance to painting and ceramics, all framed in a cultural activism linked to the closest social context. Her work enters into the rhythms of the community in which she lives, developing places of trust, rest and listening.
NACHO MARTÍN ENCINAS (Madrid, 1994) studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Castilla La Mancha. He currently combines artistic practice with practice-based academic research through the PhD programme at the UCLM. At individual level his work has been exhibited in Galería Picnic (Madrid), TRACES (Kassel), Fundación Antonio Pérez (Cuenca), Kunsthhochschule (Kassel) or Espacio Kanoko (Cuenca) among others; at collective level in Galería Arte92 (Madrid), Galería Arniches36 (El Principal, Vigo), Flutgraben (Berlin), Nuevo Montacargas (Madrid) or Königsgalerie (Kassel) among others. He has carried out several research residencies, including one at the Universität Kassel (2022-2023), during which he participated in the documenta fifteen together with the research group Hypersituations.
ANDER SAGASTIBERRI (Bilbao, 1988) lives and works in his hometown. He graduated in Art from the UPV/EHU, where he also obtained a Master's degree in Painting. He has recently had numerous solo and group exhibitions, among the former are ‘Noche de alegría’, Raccoon Projects (l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 2023), ‘Starless’ in Galería Cibrián (Donosti, 2023), ‘Desplazamiento del dedo meñique sobre las cejas’ in Picnic (Madrid, 2023), ‘I do have seen some unidentified flying object do you? ‘(BilbaoArte, 2021), ‘Lo oculto’ (Okela Lantegia, 2021), ‘Begoña’ (Aire 2, 2021), ‘El sol, inclemente’ (Petra, 2019), ‘¿Qué carta del tarot eres?’ (Taca, 2019) and ‘Una cara hablándole a un gusano’ (Rekalde Aretoa, 2018). In Ander's work we discover a web of signs, forms and automatic gestures that develop what could be called a private iconography, but far from the codified, entering into the wild and the intuitive, discovering a language of instinct and perplexity.
CECILIA SEBASTIÁN DE ERICE (Madrid, 1996) graduated in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2018. In 2021 she had an artistic residency at PADA Studios and in 2022 she obtained the grant for young creators from the Antonio Gala Foundation. She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Arte Aparte’ at Espacio Belleartes in Cáceres or with the Fundación Mainel at the Centre Cultural La Nau in Valencia, both in 2023. Cecilia works mainly in small format paintings, seeking to represent the flow of thoughts, relationships and automatisms that create the narrative map of her work, often a scenario in movement and fragmented. The artist thus presents groups of paintings where memory is merely a mural of fading moments.