Babel (Babel)

The Spanish Pavilion is the creation of the scenographer Alejandro Andujar and the sound designer Luis Miguel Cobo, who draws his inspiration for this 5 x 5 metre installation from the spatial plastic concept of the minimalist tradition as an artistic movement.

A cube divided by multiple narrow corridors that one can walk through. These corridors, an homage to the wings of a theatre, contain a world of sound that plays different languages, giving us, as spectators passing through, a perception in sound of the enormous diversity of the world we live in. As visitors wander through the installation, they will hear these different languages, turning the whole installation into a contemporary, metaphorical, poetic and abstract Tower of Babel…

The borders… We are already migrants, an inescapable condition of the digital revolution that has created the globalised times in which we live. At the same time, we perceive our modern day as kaleidoscopic and fragmented, subdivided. We live among threats and identities that are pushed apart because they believe themselves to be in conflict. Knowledge and artistic creation, together with the emotions and the human heart (which need each other as allies) are the instruments that will make communication flow and generate new bridges. Many of the possible answers and solutions can be found, as they have been for centuries, in philosophy, literature and theatre, those founts of eternal wisdom, frontier wisdom.

Country/Region Spain

Presenting Organization Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (INAEM) - Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Acción Cultural Espanola (AC/E), Instituto Cervantes, Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid (RESAD), Agencia Espanola de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)

Curator Ángel Martínez Roger

Curatorial Team Felisa de Blas Gómez, Almudena Heredero, Alejandro Andújar

Artists Alejandro Andújar, Luis Miguel Cobo