Teresa Solar Abboud: Bird Machine Dream

Bird Machine Dream encompasses various moments in the trajectory of artist Teresa Solar Abboud (Madrid, 1985).

The exhibition immerses us in a body of work that questions notions of reality, verisimilitude and fiction, comprising an artistic universe brimming with things that are not what they seem. It is a space where hybrid forms and chromatic alterations suggest a world situated between the simulated—phantasmagorical and the corporeal—geological. Using figures reminiscent of organic elements, Solar Abboud creates a dream-like dimension in order to envision stories around isolation, connectivity and metamorphosis that appeal to a fragmented contemporary subject in constant flux.

In times when everything seems disembodied, the work of Solar Abboud transports us through a sensorial experience to a more tactile space and suspended temporality. A prehistoric fossil dreams of becoming a machine, an excavation machine dreams of being a bird, a dream becomes a bird-machine—all these movements are activated during the journey offered by the artist’s imaginary. 

Bird Machine Dream is the second chapter in Teresa Solar Abboud’s evolving exhibition series, a journey that began at the Museo CA2M with Machine Dream Bird and will culminate at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, in a last chapter entitled Bird Dream Machine.

Curated by Tania Pardo, director of the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and Claudia Segura Campins, head of the MACBA Collection.

The exhibition is expanding
With a publication that presents the work of the artist, which centres on the creation of sculptural ecosystems in which families of sister forms create flows and communities, repeat and mutate in space. Includes texts by Tania Pardo, Claudia Segura Campins, Irene Calderoni, Chus Martínez and Manuela Moscoso, as well as a conversation between the artist and Cecilia Alemani.

A different kind of visit
Guided tours from December 1 onwards. Sundays at 12:30pm.