Territories in Transit / Solo dúo. Irene Grau & Marco Giordano

Te llamo cuerpo [I Call You Body] is part of the exhibition series Territories in Transit / Solo Duo, a platform for exchange and visibility that connects artists from different institutional and geographical contexts. Each edition sets two artists in dialogue – one invited by a partner institution, one based in the Comunitat Valenciana – their exchange unfolding across two venues and two exhibition periods. This format encourages the cross-pollination of perspectives, languages and territories, building collaborative networks that extend the reach of contemporary artistic practice.

Te llamo cuerpo brings the artistic practices of Marco Giordano and Irene Grau into dialogue. At its heart lies the relationship and tension between the body and the more-than-human world – a broad horizon that takes in plant and mineral species alongside the infrastructures woven into our urban ecosystems. The exhibition title speaks to the act of recognising more-than-human elements, whether natural or artificial, as bodies – subjects with an essence of their own, with which we might enter into contact. Each artist approaches this relational dynamic through distinct positions, methods and techniques.

For Irene Grau, her own body is the medium through which she enters into dialogue with the natural landscape – traversing it, inhabiting it, drawing on it as raw material for a coherent artistic practice. Her works are often the outcome of performative actions: not simply traces or records of these processes, but systems in which natural matter becomes a vocabulary in conversation with the history of painting and landscape. In Marco Giordano’s practice, the body is never displayed but always implied. His work begins with word, sound and material, reassembling them into an intrinsically performative sculptural language, and frequently involves the recomposition and transformation of matter as an act that interrogates contemporary social phenomena – and the political frictions they reveal.

Te llamo cuerpo brings together existing works by both artists alongside new productions made specifically for the museum’s spaces, spanning painting, photography, sculpture and installation.