Exhibitions
La Capella explores the limits of democracy with the exhibition 'Your order is raised on the sand'
The exhibition, promoted by Idensitat within the Nosymmetsries project and curated by Angelica Tognetti, Irati Irulegi and Vanesa Peña Alarcón, brings together seven artists who question current political and social frameworks through installations and critical projects.
La Capella has inaugurated the exhibition Vuestro orden está levantado sobre la arena . This exhibition is the result of Nosymmetries, an initiative of the Idensitat platform that uses research and the activation of artistic processes to carry out a critical exploration of the concept of democracy, its validity and its possible radical transformation.
The exhibition is curated by Angelica Tognetti, Irati Irulegi and Vanesa Peña Alarcón. The project brings together the work of a multidisciplinary group formed by Anna Peixet i Calbet, Federica Pagano, Laura Arensburg, Maria Kastillejof, Ramon Parramon, Santiago Echeverri and Santiago Fernández Honrubia.
The exhibition is structured through various installations and projects that question current political and social frameworks.
Anna Peixet i Calbet presents “ASCM”, a research that links democracy with a “material ecology” in humid ecosystems such as the Llobregat Delta or the Albufera of Valencia, recording how the degradation of the territory is also a democratic degradation.
Federica Pagano explores the imagination of the autonomous movements of Naples in “Imágenes de la alteridad deseante”, reclaiming the margin as a space of creativity and solidarity.
Laura Arensburg addresses genocide and the connection with Palestinian artists in “De lágrimas y vueltas”, while Maria Kastillejof questions “full democracies” and Spanish national symbolism through pieces such as “Instructions for dismantling a democracy” and the deconstruction of Osborne’s Bull in “Todo rabo y poca oreja”.
Santiago Echeverri analyzes migration as a movement of hope in “Bridges of transformation in four voices”, and Santiago Fernández Honrubia proposes, in “Hand-catapult, stone-stone”, to understand conflict and protest as a political exercise capable of transforming the system.
Ramon Parramon reflects on how discursive frameworks and the alliance between economic and political power erode democratic values from an intercultural perspective.
Closing the proposal, the work that gives the exhibition its name, Your Order is Raised on the Sand , functions as a manipulable textual and visual device. This collaborative work acts as a “choral voice” that seeks to establish a new terrain for the political imagination, stratifying the struggles and sediments that make up the history of democracy.
The exhibition will remain open at La Capella until April 12, 2026.
