Málaga

"Hijos del Relax" is a workshop analyzing how tourism has transformed the Costa del Sol, affecting its territory, economy and identity. Based on "Relax Style", inspired by a trip along the N-340 in 1986, the project examines the colonization of the coastline by global capitalism during the last phase of Franco's dictatorship.

Visual artist Diego Delas has designed and conceptualized a series of banners that are a poetic tribute to the relationship between man and the Mediterranean Sea. Each banner, handmade from natural fabrics, incorporates shapes and symbols inspired by nature and the waves, evoking the light and colors of the coastline.

El Susurro de las aguas is an immersive work that takes Breaths of the Moon (2022), an exploration of the Venetian lagoon, as its starting point, and expands to examine the Mediterranean's underwater ecosystem.

This conversation between art curator Bernardo de Souza and scientist Juan Pascual Anaya explores the links between art and science, with hagfish genome research at its core. The conversation focuses on how the two fields, despite having different perspectives, share an impulse to imagine, study and speculate on the mysteries of life and nature.

For years, artist Juan del Junco has been working with the world of ornithology as a frame of reference. He has described, classified and used images of birds to create metaphors. The film essay El mensaje is, in the artist's words, "the beautiful, sonorous song of a bird, but it is a sad song, a rebuke, a desperate song of one who inhabited this world thousands of years before us".

Zambulla A invites us to reflect on the tension between the desire for freedom and emotional rootedness, suggesting that our deepest bonds often define the most important decisions in our lives.