The Museo CA2M is presenting the first solo show by the artist Santiago Sierra in a Madrid institution. This exhibition consists of a compilation and analysis of one of the most common resources in the practice of Santiago Sierra (Madrid, Spain, 1966) throughout his entire artistic career: pictures of people facing the wall, like inverse ‘portraits’ in which the subject’s identity is negated or dissolved in anomie.

First institutional monographic exhibition dedicated to Jorge Satorre in Spain. His artistic practice addresses the unmapped and ‘minor’ history, either by attending to the intangible heritage of customs and the transmission of stories, or by engaging in more formal approaches through the production methods of traditional manufacturing trades, as well as their places, stories and workers.

Part of a group of figurative women painters like Esther Boix and Isabel Villar, Carmen Pagés’s work reflects openly on social injustices and how power is wielded over the least fortunate in today’s societies. 

The world of Miki Leal is a world of jazz, cinema, the American lifestyle and sport, as well as his family world, his domestic environment and within it his personal belongings.

This exhibition is the result of a selection of works, objects and images as well as newly produced interventions. Many of the pieces in the exhibition are part of the CA2M Museum's collection, although there are also loans from other public and private collections in the country as well as from the selected artists themselves.

El Barro de la Revolución comprises some of the works created by Paloma Polo (Madrid, 1983) after her long stay, or rather her “personal and political immersion” in the Philippines since 2013. It is precisely the last of those works—a film lasting approximately 2 hours 35 minutes—what gives title to the show and functions as its connecting line, while at the same time giving rise to many of the social and political reflections present in other works by Polo during the time she spent in the Philippines.

This first graphic intervention by Maria Medem opens a space for reflection on illustration at the CA2M Museum. Maria Medem's imaginary universe, reflected in different non-exhibition areas of the Museum, generates a sensorial and experimental atmosphere where the limits between the real, the strange and the ambiguous are blurred and materialized in different forms.

Imagining the analysis of the social and political systems of our day through the figures of clowns, harlequins and hands does not seem at all strange in these times. It is true that the division between individual and persona has never been so relevant.