Chiquita Room

Chiquita Room is a contemporary art gallery, publishing house and artist residency with locations in Barcelona and Brussels. Guided by a committed curatorial approach, its programme focuses on interdisciplinary and collaborative practices, with the aim of supporting both local and international talent and fostering connections between them. Its mission is to accompany artists in the development of their projects and to address issues that are relevant to society from a critical, innovative and collective gaze. Ultimately, Chiquita Room seeks to engage audiences in the experience of art as a source of knowledge and beauty, broadening their interpretations of reality through reflection and debate. All of this is made possible thanks to a team of kind, capable and dedicated people who take care of the processes and the details.

Represented artists:

Laía Argüelles Folch, Pieter Laurens Mol, Teresa Estapé, Isabel Banal, Xana Sousa, Louis Porter, Julia Aurora Guzmán, Alba Yruela, Laia Arqueros, Laura Zuccaro, Estampa, Blanca Viñas, Maria Freire Montané, Mercè Soler, Sara Agudo Millán.

This exhibition explores, through a material and immaterial notion of inheritance, the movements and transformations of expressive gesture, particularly the gestures of drawing and writing, and the ways in which we internalize them until they become our own, accompanying us in our search for and construction of meaning in the world.

Drawing on materials found or rediscovered both within and beyond the artist’s archive, as well as on revisited places, the works that make up this project return to old traces, paths already traveled, and rewritten words in order to reposition themselves around them and, from that point, engage in an act of transformation. The techniques employed range from screen printing on textiles to field sound recording, including frottage, graphite-powder stenciling, and monotype printing on paper.