Presented by: ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture
Venue: Carrer d’Espronceda 326, Nau 5, 08027 Barcelona
Date and time: Thursday, March 5, 7 p.m.
ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture presents Digital Monuments, a dialogue between artists Lena Trapp and Love Antell (SE). Their respective visual universes converge in video projections that propose what digital monuments could become.
This field relates not only to the monuments we have already inherited, but also to the process of constructing the next generation of digital monuments. Cultural memory through digital monuments implies a profound shift: from the idea of permanence and a tangible work that rises above us, towards the conception of monuments that are not static, in constant transformation and flux.
Digital Monuments responds to both the official and the unofficial, to the marked and the untold stories that constitute the ideas of a place. At this intersection of memory, technology, and representation, the exhibition raises a reflection on how collective narratives are configured in the digital age.
The event is part of the NUBIA Labs 2026 program, ESPRONCEDA’s incubation platform for digital and interdisciplinary art projects.
About the artists:
Lena Trapp (1974) is a visual artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She works primarily with sculptures, installations, and moving images, creating immersive environments where physical and digital elements intersect. Through themes such as identity, embodiment, and relationships, Trapp moves between the human and the artificial, the material and the virtual. Her works are characterized by a strong physical presence in which organic forms merge with industrial materials. Her practice explores interior and exterior spaces where layers of time, memory, and perception intersect, raising questions about how, in times of increasing technologization, we perceive ourselves and our place in the world.
Love Antell (1980) is a multimedia artist, illustrator, and musician based in Stockholm, Sweden. She creates digital experiences as public art for urban development projects and museums, exploring the relationship between digital media and cultural memory. She leads an art research project affiliated with the Institute for Future Studies that addresses the digitization of existing monuments with a dissonant cultural heritage, questioning how historical narratives are reinterpreted and reshaped in contemporary digital contexts.
About NUBIA Labs
NUBIA Labs is the digital art incubation program run by ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture. The program supports artistic research and production processes that explore new forms of creation in the digital realm, fostering the intersection of art, technology, and critical thinking.
