LUCÍA C. PINO. YOU WHO HAVE BEAUTIFUL MANNERS

Curated by: Aimar Arriola

In November 2025, the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo will present You Who Have Beautiful Manners, the first solo exhibition by Lucía C. Pino in a museum in the Madrid region. C. Pino works primarily with image and sculpture. For the past decade, the artist’s practice has largely been concerned with questioning the material and ontological inertias rooted in design, architecture and sculpture, such as attachment, solidity or durability. In C. Pino’s most recent works the artist has worked from material and affective encounters with queer archives, reworked as images and sculptures, aware of the risks of making spaces of resistance and struggle legible.

The archive is an important methodology in Lucía’s work, both past archives and the one they create with their own images. One of their collections observes a formal repertoire of typically Mediterranean everyday doors, forms that introduce notions of visibility and concealment while also alluding the act of framing, that is, the mental or interpretative frames we use to make sense of what is around us. These themes will be brought to the spaces of the CA2M Museum through the artworks and the museography, the latter designed for the show by Roger Serret i Ricou in conjunction with Apa Arguello.

Likewise, the exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual publication in English and Spanish co-published by the CA2M Museum and Mousse (Milan). It will include brief texts written by Imani Mason Jordan, Edwin Nasr and Beatriz Ortega Botas which will address different aspects of the artist’s work, as well as an essay by Aimar Arriola to contextualise the exhibition. The monograph will be distributed internationally by Mousse Publishing.

You Who Have Beautiful Manners is the third part of an exhibition trilogy by Lucía C. Pino which began with But If You Love Us at the Centro Botín (Santander) in 2023 and continued with U Said ‘Stay’, So I Stayed at the Elba Benítez gallery (Madrid) in autumn-winter 2024–2025.

LUCÍA C. PINO

Lucía C. Pino (Valencia, 1977 currently lives and works in Barcelona). C. Pino’s work encompasses a variety of mediums, including sculpture, photography, drawing, performance, installation and research. Beyond the format, C. Pino’s work creates contrasting associations among materials, textures, structures, scales and formats which affect their tactile and sensual qualities. Viewed as a whole, C. Pino’s practice aligns with the fluidity of a queer ethos while also stressing the inherently performative aspect of the creative act.

C. Pino has presented their works at institutions such as Patio Herreriano Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español (Valladolid, 2023, 2024), Centro Botín (Santander, 2023), MACBA Museo d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2023), CA2M Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Móstoles, Madrid, 2023), Artiatx (Bilbao, 2022), Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin, 2022), La Capella MACBA (Barcelona, 2021), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2021, 2022), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, 2021), Centre d’Art Tecla Sala (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 2021), La Panera (Lleida, 2021), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2017), Espai 13 of the Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, 2018) and others. C. Pino was invited to participate in the Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial (La Panera, Lleida, 2021).

AIMAR ARRIOLA

Aimar Arriola (Markina-Xemein, 1976; he currently lives and works in Madrid). He is a curator, editor and researcher. He graduated from the PEI – Independent Studies Programme at MACBA, Barcelona, and  the CuratorLab in Konstfack, Stockholm. He has a PhD from the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, London. He has organised programmes and exhibitions since 2010, both individually and in collaboration, at venues like the ADKDW Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne; MUSAC, León; MACBA, Barcelona; CentroCentro, Madrid; The Showroom, London; Tenth Central American Biennial, Costa Rica; Bilbao Fine Arts Museum; and Tabakalera, San Sebastián. In 2012 he was nominated for the Independent Vision Curatorial Award from ICI, New York, for his early work.

He has been the inaugural Associate Researcher (2020–2023) at AZ Alhóndiga Bilbao, a member of the technical committee of the Eremuak programme (2019–2023) and the editor of The Against Nature Journal (Council, Paris, 2017–2023). More recently, between 2024 and April 2025, he was Head of Programme at Matadero Madrid, where he managed the Intermediae programme and contributed to the relaunch of the Abierto x Obras initiative for site-specific art commissions.

His past collaborations with the CA2M Museum include Before Everything (2010–2011), an exhibition he curated in conjunction with Manuela Moscoso, and the first to occupy all the museum’s spaces.