Presented by: ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture
Venue: Carrer d’Espronceda 326, Nau 5, 08027 Barcelona
Date: Friday, January 16, 2026,
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
A collective landscape of change. In collaboration with ELISAVA – Barcelona School of Design and Engineering.
ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture is pleased to present I have been changed. You change me. Do not take me for granite, an ephemeral collective exhibition developed in collaboration with ELISAVA – Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, as part of the final presentation of the 3rd year of the Degree in Design and Engineering.
Under the subtitle A collective landscape of change, the exhibition proposes a sensitive ecosystem in which eighteen intimacies intertwine, shaping an intersubjective landscape of continuous transformation. Inspired by Being Taken for Granite by Ursula K. Le Guin, the project challenges the idea of identity as something fixed or immutable, proposing instead a state of constant becoming.
Each project forms part of a larger landscape of change. Some works return to childhood and the traces it leaves behind, while others explore intimacy, perception, projection, or the forces that shape how we see ourselves and others. Together, the works move through different states: from solidity to fracture, from fracture to openness, and from openness to mud.
Visitors are invited to move through the exhibition space at their own pace: to wander, to pause, to look again. To change the works and allow themselves to be changed in return. Light shifts, images blur, reflections appear and disappear. Bodies move through space and, in doing so, become part of the work—sometimes visible, sometimes not.
This ephemeral exploration is inscribed within the ongoing exhibition HOMEOSTASIS by Mark Redden, functioning as an act of resonance. The students’ works echo homeostasis as a lived condition—fragile, unstable, and continuously negotiated through vulnerability and change. The exhibition becomes a temporary system of indeterminacy and shared becoming, an open process of dematerialisation. From granite to mud.
Artworks (From granite to mud)
Jan Cañadas, From Clay to Virtue
Ella Slachmuylders, Prejudices Between Us
Hug Maideu, Topographies of Life
Judit Prats, 28 Acts of Sitting
Jessica Caiza, 1000 Gazes of Dana
Maya Yeretsian, Transformation in Motion
Laura Sierra, Sardanyola
Bianca Oonk, Fleeting Impressions
Ellie Schoorens, Empty Bed
Martina Murillo, Time in Bloom
Zhiyi Shen, Flux
Jana Rousaud, Growing Up w/ a Twin Sister
Patricia Martínez, Feminine Purity
Joanna Padilla, From Notebook to World
Floella Freeman, Childhood Uncovered
Adriana Coca, Intimacy of Becoming
Valentina Annese, Young Minds
Mayline Martin, The Unseen of the Unresolved
Credits
Created by:
18 students from the 3rd year of the Bachelor’s Degree in Design and Engineering
ELISAVA – Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
Valentina Annese, Jessica Caiza, Jan Cañadas, Adriana Coca, Floella Freeman, Hug Maideu, Mayline Martin, Patricia Martínez, Martina Murillo, Bianca Oonk, Joanna Padilla, Judit Prats, Jana Rousaud, Ellie Schoorens, Zhiyi Shen, Ella Slachmuylders, Maya Yeretsian
Directed by:
Manuela Valtchanova
Jordi Canudas
Pänta (Daia Serra & Marta Corredor)
Elia Torres & Sara Bago
