The Fundació Úniques (carrer dels Àngels, 16, Barcelona) presents the exhibition Generació Úniques 2026. The archive of volatile memory until July 25, a proposal included within the emergent art festival Art Nou that brings together eight artists selected through an open call promoted by the foundation last February and evaluated by a professional committee.
These artists develop their artistic practice in Catalonia, in line with the territorial link promoted by the Art Nou festival. They are: Agustina Fioretti, Alba Acebes Macià, Ana Lucia Garcia Hoefken, Cristina Cebrecos, Gessamí Olesa, Irene Trujillo, Maria Rodon and Nicole Vindel.
“Memory is destroyed and evolves”
The exhibition takes as its starting point the critical text by the young curator and contemporary art researcher Àfrica Morgui Súnico, author of the text accompanying the exhibition. Her reflection poses memory as a living and changing element: “Memory is destroyed and evolves, it is born as something and becomes something else with the evolution of time; like nature, the more humans try to control it, the more it reveals itself, living in constant movement of adaptation.”
Based on this idea, the exhibition is organized into three conceptual lines. The first brings together artists who approach landscape and territory from a social, political, and ecological perspective, focusing on the processes of transformation and destruction of matter. The works of Ana Lucia Garcia Hoefken, Gessamí Olesa, and Nicole Vindel are included in this area.
The second line focuses on personal and family memory, inherited narratives and lived spaces, as well as the capacity of objects to preserve and reconstruct memories, often in a shared territory between reality, fiction, and desire. This perspective is present in the proposals of Agustina Fioretti and Maria Rodon.
Finally, a third conceptual line includes the works of Irene Trujillo, Alba Acebes Macià, and Cristina Cebrecos, expanding the dialogue on memory and the multiple ways in which it transforms and manifests itself.
Developing new lines of art
This exhibition is, according to the foundation, "the result of an open selection process that aims to reflect the plurality of languages, disciplines, sensibilities, and lines of research present in the proposals received." With this initiative, the Úniques Foundation says it reaffirms its commitment to the development of new generations of artists and to the consolidation of a more diverse, committed, equitable, critical, and connected art scene.
You can find more information about this art space in the center of Barcelona on its website.
