Exhibitions
Last days to discover 'And I become a river, whose brown tongue will not rest' at La Casa Encendida
There are only a few days left to visit And I become a river, whose brown tongue will not rest , one of the proposals selected within Inéditos 2026 at La Casa Encendida, a project curated by Raquel Algaba (Madrid, 1992) that invites us to rethink our relationship with the environment from a perspective where the biological and the technological cease to be understood as opposing realities to reveal themselves as profoundly interdependent systems.
The exhibition brings together works by Cecilia Fiona, Leticia Martínez Pérez, Leonor Serrano Rivas and Lola Zoido, four artists whose research converges in a reflection on hybrid ecosystems, distributed consciousness and new forms of perception that emerge in a context marked by the ecological crisis and the increasing technologization of the world.
Far from presenting nature as a passive backdrop, the exhibition conceives of it as a dynamic organism, capable of perceiving, adapting, and responding to the transformations of its environment. From this perspective, sensors, infrastructure, living organisms, and computational processes share a common web of relationships, challenging the traditional separation between nature and technology.
The curatorial approach thus shifts the focus from the question of how technology transforms the natural world to a more complex one: how nature itself incorporates and reinterprets these technological systems within its processes of adaptation. This change in perspective also invites a reconsideration of the concept of consciousness, understood here as a network of responses and relationships that transcends the exclusively human.
The exhibition layout transforms the gallery into a living landscape. Conceived as an expanded greenhouse, each installation develops its own microclimate and establishes a particular rhythm of growth and transformation. The undulating pedestals and the arrangement of the pieces create a resonant ecosystem where subtle variations produce new configurations, evoking a constantly evolving territory.
Within this context, Cecilia Fiona imagines, through installations and paintings, ecosystems where bodies, organisms, and matter are immersed in continuous processes of mutation. Her works propose a worldview based on the coexistence and interdependence of different life forms.
Leticia Martínez Pérez's works delve into the ambiguity between the organic and the artificial through structures that activate the viewer's perception. Her pieces transform nature into a system of signs where beauty, threat, attraction, and strangeness coexist simultaneously.
Leonor Serrano Rivas, for her part, develops sculptural devices that combine organic materials, scientific processes, and symbolic references to generate systems in constant transformation. Matter circulates, changes, and reorganizes itself, blurring the boundaries between the natural, the technical, and the alchemical.
The exhibition culminates with the research of Lola Zoido, who explores the landscape through digital tools such as three-dimensional modeling and virtual reality. Her works reflect on the fragility of a territory whose existence is increasingly mediated by processes of capture, translation, and algorithmic reconstruction.
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