Nua – Lugar de Convivencia

Nua – Lugar de Convivencia

Address

C/ Aguilón, 7, Madrid

Web

https://www.instagram.com/esquinanua/

Email

esquinanua@gmail.com

Opening

18.09.2024 21:30

Schedule

21:30-23:00h

Nua – Lugar de Convivencia

«Parres» is a series composed of three performative videos, developed in a 35mm film format, evoking—in an almost poetic way—the Italian neorealist movement. This movement, with its extensive videography that attempted to emulate an endless sequence shot, sought to capture the most immediate and raw reality of a society. Just as Italian neorealism reflected a country trying to reconstitute itself after the war, Parres attempts to capture, with a performative and documentary approach, the reality of the workers on the margins of Cuernavaca, Mexico.
In the work «Parres» by the artist Melanie Smith, the camera not only focuses on the inhabitants, but also their daily tasks. Away from large cities and their overcrowded jobs, these workers seek to survive with informal activities, such as washing windows. This activity fills the screen and stands as the epicenter of a community that, like many decentralized points in Latin America, lives its own reality, a distant dystopia that, similar to Orwell’s stories, reveals that inequality and state abandonment They transcend the pages of a book.
Another crucial aspect in this audiovisual composition is the choice of the soundscape, which acts as a dream tear. Instead of romanticizing poverty, it seeks to portray it, mimic it and transform it into a metaphor for the crack and tear that it means to inhabit a dystopia forgotten even by the Mexican government itself. In the photographic section, it is fascinating how Smith uses the craft of window cleaning to show that Parres exists, is on the map of Mexico and needs to be seen. However, it also suggests that its history, like window dressing, can easily be wiped clean and forgotten. In these brief moments, the workers come to the foreground and, with a subtle but powerful gesture, soap and erase the screen, symbolizing that although this performance is exhibited in London, under the critical gaze of those who consider art as a mere museum object, they will continue there, inhabiting the border, walking through the dystopia of Parres and continuing with their work, perhaps hoping that their community will finally be discovered and helped.

Text: Nicolás Ibáñez

FESTIVAL 2025

2025 arrives filled with moving images with a new edition of the PROYECTOR Festival: New Hertzog Da Silva Awards and the 3rd Edition of VERTICAL <25

The PROYECTOR platform showcases and distributes the most experimental and cutting-edge proposals from the international scene. The Festival is known for its non-cinemanormative works—pieces that fall outside traditional formats and engage directly with space and the active viewer.

From September 10 to 21, 2025, more than twenty venues across Madrid will intersect to present new languages and formats through around 100 works of expanded cinema, performance, video art, site-specific pieces, interactive installations, and unique premieres presented for the first time at the Festival.

PROYECTOR collaborates with both independent and established spaces, spanning from the city center to surrounding neighborhoods of the capital. These venues are filled with video art proposals curated by the PROYECTOR platform as well as by the galleries and museums that form part of the OFF Circuit.

Additionally, PROYECTOR works with other festivals focused on experimental video art and moving image, such as Loops.Expanded, FIVA, PLAY, and Fonlad.

But there’s more!

In its 18th edition, the Hertzog Da Silva Awards return! A total of 6 prizes will be awarded to works selected through the public call by this edition’s jury. Each year, the jury is made up of international professionals specializing in experimental video art. For this edition, the jury includes both artists and curators.

Thanks to Hertzog Da Silva, we are also launching—for the second year—the call for young creators who think vertically: VERTICAL <25. With a new public voting system via social media, you can help choose the winner of a production residency in 2026!

PROYECTOR continues to champion Madrid’s contemporary art scene by collaborating with the Platform of Independent Contemporary Creation Spaces, featuring 10 new venues this year and, for the first time, opening the doors to artists’ studios.

The Festival is committed to equality and to the internationalization of a free and accessible culture. That’s why each year, more than half of the selected works are by women artists from up to 30 different countries, and all festival activities are free of charge.

Additionally, all events—including openings, talks, performances, and workshops—will be streamed online (via YouTube and Vimeo) to ensure international accessibility.

The platform collaborates with universities, offering younger generations the opportunity to gain training and integrate into the cultural sector. We are grateful for the support and sponsorship of associations, galleries, foundations, private companies, embassies, venues, and above all, the artists who make it all possible.

Rebeca M Urizar

CALENDARIO

PATROCINIO

APOYAN
Comunidad de Madrid

COLABORAN
Foro Cultural de Austria, Institut Ramon Llull, Taiwan Ministry of Culture and the Department of Culture Affairs, Taipei City government

FESTIVALES – COMISARIADOS
FIVA, Fonlad, Loops.Expanded, Mostra Brasilenha Pioneiras da Videoarte y PLAY

PATROCINAN EN ESPECIE 
Bodegas PradoRey y LAV

GRACIAS
 Josefa de la Roca y MIMP

MEDIOS
Fluido Rosa

EQUIPO

Organizing: KREÆ [Instituto Creación Contemporánea]
Direction: Mario Gutiérrez Cru
Coordination: Rebeca M Urizar
Coordination – PROYECTOR OFF: Gonzalo de Benito
Coordination – LAP (Laboratorios Arte PROYECTOR): Ariadna Arce
Production Coordination : Eloi Costilludo
Production Team:  Cecilia Vieira, Giovanna Fernández, Julien Rose, Ramón García del Pomar, Raúl García Collado y Rebeca M Urizar
Marketing, Communications and Press Coordination: Boreal Project
V.I.P. Coordination: Federica Iozzia
Marketing/Socials Coordination: Rebeca M Urízar
Documentation Coordination: Ángel Arroyo
Documentation/Visual Team: Araceli López, Cris Alonso, Rafhet Guerola, José Peris, Juan Caro, Julien Rose, Luis González, Nicolás Ibáñez
Curatorships: Cecilia Vieira, Mario Gutiérrez Cru, Mía de Diego, Rebeca M Urízar y Yese Astarloa
Protocol: Bárbara Luquero, Doménica Figari, Marta Delibes, Paula Ibarra, Sergio Agramunt y Tania Carrascosa
Translations: Daniel Bell y Teresa Del Pino
Graphic Design Coordination: Mario Gutiérrez Cru
Design Team: Froilán Blanco, Leonor Juárez y Lucía Salvatierra
Web: Mario Gutiérrez Cru
Text: Agnieszka Jakób, Alain Fernández, Araceli López, Diego Prior, Domenica Figari, Francisco Pradilla, Joana Groba, Juanita Díaz, Luis Cemillán, Mario Gutiérrez Cru, Mía de Diego, Nicola Ibáñez, Rebeca M Urizar, Santiago Colombo y Yese Astarloa

PROYECTOR 2025

PROYECTOR 2025
10.09.2025 21.09.2025
PROYECTOR 2024

PROYECTOR 2024
11.09.2024 22.09.2024

2025

NO MORE HEROES
Intermodal

2024

Parres

2025

Kaya & Blank

2024

Melanie Smith
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