GlogauAIR resident from July, 2025 to September, 2025

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When we were The Five is a (self-)fictional story based on a photograph taken at the
Pirámide nightclub in 2009 (the year the club closed due to the economic crisis that began in
2008). The protagonists of the image appear distorted, anonymous, almost ghostly… stripped of a specific identity, thus becoming the collective identity of any teenager who in those years was beginning to discover the world during a hedonistic era that was coming to an end.

The fictional part of the project is inspired by the different stories told in the
young adult novel series The Famous Five by writer Enid Blyton. These novels, so popular in our country among the different generations born since the middle of the last century, emerge as the poetic backbone of the project. This creates a contrast with the different model of youth presented in
Blyton’s novels and shows the social reality of an era marked by the excesses of the
property bubble and also by the shortcomings of the economic crisis (and hangover) that followed.

In early 2025, I visited what remains of the Pirámide nightclub, now abandoned, in
the municipality of Cabanes, with a camera. My intention in taking all the images was simply to reconstruct the ghost of those five anonymous figures who seemed so happy on that night in 2009. That same week, I bought 15 illustrated copies of the different Famous Five novels so that I would have archive images to support me. With all this, I saw that I already had enough material to carry out a film and installation project and thus be able to reconfigure the image of what we once were.

– Organisation and presentation of the CINE Y CIUDAD film series, EACC 2025

– Organisation and presentation of the ESPAI CINEMA film series: UTOPÍA, EACC, 2024

– Talk in the Contar con Imágenes series, Menador. Castelló 2023

– Organisation and participation in the La neu no es fon al Juny residency, EACC. Castelló 2023

– Publication of the photo book AUTO DE FE, PÓLVORA publishing house. 2023

– Selection for the EAN (Encontro de Artistas Novos) artistic residency, Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela, 2022

– Exhibition El descrèdit de la realitat, EACC (Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló). June, 2022

– Exhibition El descrèdit de la realitat, EACC (Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló). June, 2022

– Exhibition Cúmul OpenStudio, Cúmul. Castelló. April, 2022

– Exhibition Gas, Ajuntament de Benicàssim. Benicàssim. September, 2021

– Exhibition At the Summer Rave, Novella Gallery. Sagunto, June 2021

– Selection for residency and exhibition at Bilis Negra. Tierra Seca y Fría, Konvent Punt Zero. Barcelona, May 2021

– Exhibition Crisis, Museu Molí d’Arroç, Almenara. April 2021

– EMAC Festival Exhibition, Borriana. May 2021

– Online Exhibition Alégrame esas Pascuas, Online ABC Cultural. January, 2021

– Krampus Showroom Exhibition, Cúmul. Castellón, December 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.

– VÍTOL collective exhibition, Museu Belles Arts de Castelló, 2022

– Organisation and participation in the VÍTOL conference. Cúmul together with Consorci de Museus. May 2022

– Creator, together with Jorge Alamar, of the Quema en Villores (Castelló) residency project. La Fotoescuela, Valencia

– Assistant to Julián Barón in his exhibition C.E.N.S.U.R.A. La Reunión. Llotja Cànem, Castelló. January 2022

– Assistant to artist Jon Cazenave for the Galerna project curated by Julián Barón. EACC. Nov 2021