Presented by: ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture
Featuring: Natalia Cabrera, Simone Garcia, Aida Corcoy, Pia Behmuaras, Ailin Bars, Vladislav OSSSO, Nancy El Azzi
Venue: Carrer d’Espronceda 326, Nau 5, 08027 Barcelona
Opening: December 4th from 18:00 to 21.30 h
18:00 — Danses de Llum · XR Preview
19:00 – 21:30 — Opening of the IMMENSIVA Exhibition
Open to the public: December 5th from 18:00– 20:00 h
The culminating exhibition of the IMMENSIVA Residency 2025 and a central highlight of the IMMENSIVA FESTIVAL 2025.
ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture proudly presents the IMMENSIVA 2025 Exhibition Opening, the final showcase of the IMMENSIVA Residency and a central highlight of the IMMENSIVA FESTIVAL 2025 — XR SOCIAL BLOCKS.
As one of Catalonia’s leading platforms for XR innovation, IMMENSIVA brings together international artists, creative technologists, and researchers to develop XR Social Blocks: experimental prototypes that explore AI, embodiment, collective interaction, and new models of digital coexistence.
Taking place from December 3–5, 2025, the festival gathers a new generation of XR creators whose interactive installations merge artificial intelligence, extended reality, storytelling, and social reflection. Throughout the festival, ESPRONCEDA becomes a living laboratory of multi-sensory narratives and collaborative imagination.
XR SOCIAL BLOCKS — Building XR for Collective Futures
Under the theme XR SOCIAL BLOCKS, the 2025 edition focuses on prototypes that:
- bridge technology, the body, and community
- challenge systems of visibility, identity, and agency
- propose new modes of coexistence in hybrid environments
From September to December 2025, IMMENSIVA residents developed their projects through an intensive mentoring process guided by leading experts: Onur Topal-Sümer, Marta Ordeig, Joe Davis, Esen K. Tütüncü, Sultan Sharrief, Marte Roel, Marlon Fuentes, Maria Rice, Robert Hupp, Kris Pilcher, and Daniel González Franco.
FEATURED IMMENSIVA PROJECTS
A showcase of emerging Catalan talent living and creating in Catalonia, together with international artists working within the local XR ecosystem: Natalia Cabrera, Simone Garcia, Aida Corcoy, Pia Behmuaras, Nancy El Azzi, Ailin Bars, Vladislav OSSSO.
why does my body keep rooting? — Natalia Cabrera & Simone Garcia
A multi-user XR experience in which visitors embody human–plant hybrid avatars. Stillness causes their bodies to root into the ground, connecting them to the environment and to one another. Movement requires breaking their own roots, revealing tensions between isolation, interdependence, and posthuman identity.
Let Me Feel Your Body — Aida Corcoy & Pia Behmuaras
A mixed-reality installation that exposes the systems of control imposed on the female body. Visitors must mimic fragile glass sculptures to reveal hidden scenes tied to cultural conditioning. Each gesture unveils dual narratives—visibility versus erasure, objectification versus manipulation—turning empathy into a shared physical act and challenging the social gaze.
Horizons of a Labyrinth — Aida Corcoy
An immersive VR journey that turns a labyrinth into a digital art gallery of emotional states inspired by the concept of Samsara. Six rooms—anger, craving, ignorance, doubt, envy, and pride—become spatial metaphors for inner tensions. The labyrinth functions as an emotional map, inviting visitors to navigate their own states of consciousness.
Entremedio — Ailin Bars
An intimate XR experience exploring Transmutation: the process through which inner chaos, trauma, and creative struggle transform into artistic expression. Visitors enter the choreographer–director–flutist’s psyche as a living sensory ecosystem, where grief, paralysis, and memory unfold through XR, spatial sound, and VFX. The room itself breathes and shifts, becoming an extension of the artist’s inner world.
The Bottle You Were Born In / Becoming the Unborn — Vladislav OSSSO
A VR and mixed-reality installation investigating vulnerability and pre-birth identity. Viewers shift between observing an embryo sealed in a 19-liter bottle and inhabiting its perspective through VR. By contrasting technological, corporate, natural, and human viewpoints, the work reveals how external frameworks shape perception and personal identity.
About the Artists
Natalia Cabrera
Media artist, filmmaker, and educator from Iquique, Chile, currently based in Barcelona. Her work explores the intersection between art, ecology, and emerging technologies through interactive narratives and XR experiences. Co-founder of Nanai Studio, she has presented her projects at Sundance (Hypha, 2020) and continues to investigate interdependence and non-human perspectives.
Simone Garcia
Digital artist from Havana, Cuba, whose practice explores symbolism, mythology, and queer erotica through digital media. She has presented her works at Vienna Art Week, MMMAD Festival, IGNITE Broward, and The Wrong Biennale.
Aida Corcoy
Digital artist exploring identity, alter egos, and self-awareness through AI, 3D, and augmented reality. Her work merges music, fashion, and digital storytelling, examining contemporary expressions of self and culture.
Pia Behmuaras
Immersive experience designer and multimedia artist based in Barcelona. With a background in psychology and art, she focuses on the emotional and therapeutic dimensions of XR. Her work has been showcased at AWE and Games for Change.
Ailin Bars
Interdisciplinary creative director from Buenos Aires. Her installations and films explore gender, sociology, and the environment through performative and poetic languages. Her short film CUERPO es cuerpo has received multiple international awards.
Vladislav OSSSO
Barcelona-based artist and director working at the intersection of art, AI, and tactile sensation. His installations explore the tension between the physical and the virtual, investigating how technology mediates perception and authenticity.
Nancy El Azzi
Visual artist and art director from Lebanon. Combining graphic design, sound, and real-time visuals, her practice investigates emotional intensity and chaos within digital aesthetics.
FEATURED GUEST PROJECT – DANSES DE LLUM XR
Danses de Llum XR is an independent immersive project showcased as a special feature of the IMMENSIVA Opening.
Designed for audiences of all ages, this augmented-reality experience invites participants to explore Catalan cultural heritage through choreographic interaction. Traditional dances — sardanes, jotes, and balls de bastons — are reinterpreted using holographic choreography, adaptive AI, and participatory movement.
The work creates a collective ritual that bridges tradition and innovation, celebrating rhythm, inclusivity, intergenerational exchange, and the vibrant continuity of community through immersive media.
ABOUT IMMENSIVA 2025 — XR SOCIAL BLOCKS
IMMENSIVA is a program by ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture dedicated to experimentation in immersive art and technology. Through residencies, exhibitions, and festivals, it offers a collaborative framework for artists, researchers, and professionals to explore new forms of expression using XR, AI, and interactive media. Celebrating its sixth edition in Catalonia, IMMENSIVA 2025 reinforces its commitment to inclusion, diversity, sustainability, and experimental practice. The program supports the creation of immersive prototypes designed for museums, universities, and international festivals, bridging artistic innovation with real-world social impact. More information: www.immensiva.com
About IMMENSIVA
IMMENSIVA is a program by ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture dedicated to experimentation and creation in immersive art and technology. It provides a collaborative framework for artists, researchers, and professionals to explore new forms of artistic expression using XR, AI, and interactive media. Over the years, IMMENSIVA has developed exhibitions, residencies, and festivals that merge creativity, innovation, and social reflection. More information: https://www.immensiva.com/
Press Contact: Maria Rubies — press@espronceda.net | +34 607 639 552
