BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY – 6TH EDITION 2025
BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2025 brings together over 20 international artistic voices from around the world to explore identity transformation, the fluid boundaries between body, mind, and environment, and innovative ways of communicating and experiencing the spaces that surround us.
BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2025 analyzes the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary times, through two main sections: MIXING IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES.
MIXING IDENTITIES analyzes the hidden parts of our identities, through an immersive experience inside the fascinating universe of the complex labyrinths of our consciousness. The human body is a changing system that connects us with other bodies and spaces to perceive the surrounding reality; a strong communication system with its language and infinite ways of expression.
FUTURE LANDSCAPES are abstract, infinite and conceptual, associated with a sense of freedom and infinite extension. Primarily experienced with the mind, spaces redefine their limits and borders, transforming surfaces in an open flow of pure ideas. This section focuses on the concept of the borders and the structures between body, mind and soul, the human identity and the city, the space and the ground.
Illustration 1
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Exhibition: BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY – 6TH EDITION 2025
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Title: Halloween Food Fable
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Venue: ITSLIQUID Art Space, Barcelona
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Date: 16/10/25 - 27/10/25
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Organised in Barcelona by ITSLIQUID GROUP
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Description: Halloween Food Fable" is an animated exploration of the unspoken transformation of Halloween—from its ancient Celtic roots to its modern, commercialized incarnation. The work delves into the fragmented history of the holiday, revealing how its original cultural and spiritual significance has been overshadowed by the noise of consumerism and Western capitalism. Through a visual and auditory journey, the animation begins with organic, natural elements—food, scenes, and sound effects that evoke the agrarian spirit of Samhain, the Celtic festival that birthed Halloween. As the animation progresses, these elements gradually shift, becoming increasingly artificial, modern, and industrialized, mirroring the way Halloween has been stripped of its cultural depth and reduced to a spectacle of decorations, costumes, and sweets. The work speaks to the unspeakable: the silencing of cultural and nonhuman entities in the face of global consumerism. It questions whether the celebration of Halloween today pays adequate homage to its origins or if it has become hollow, profit-driven event. The animation serves as a metaphor for the broader cultural erasure that occurs when traditions are commodified, and the voices of history, nature, and nonhuman entities are drowned out by the demands of capitalism. It invites viewers to reflect on the language of silence—the untold stories of the past, the muted voices of nature, and the unspoken consequences of cultural commodification.
Illustration 2
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Exhibition: BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY – 6TH EDITION 2025
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Title: Once Upon a Time
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Venue: ITSLIQUID Art Space, Barcelona
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Date: 16/10/25 - 27/10/25