Experience 'Disfuncionarias,' a captivating installation by Tanit Plana, a key part of PHotoESPAÑA '26 at the Museo Cerralbo. This exhibition offers a sensitive and critical look at the professional individuals who preserve and interpret museum heritage. Plana's work transforms rigid images into flexible fabric panels, creating ambiguous, emerging volumes that invite visitors to engage in reflection and knowledge exchange.
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This site-specific installation by Tanit Plana, part of PHotoESPAÑA '26, offers a sensitive and critical approach to the 'functioning body' – the professional body that researches, collects, interprets, and exhibits museum heritage. Through large-format fabric panels, the exhibition transforms rigid images into flexible surfaces that fill the exhibition space.
The Museo Cerralbo is participating in PHotoESPAÑA '26 with 'Disfuncionarias,' a significant exhibition by artist Tanit Plana. This site-specific installation critically examines the 'functioning body,' referring to the professional individuals within museums responsible for researching, collecting, interpreting, and displaying material and immaterial heritage. Plana uses large-format fabric panels that extend across the exhibition space, transforming the rigidity of printed images into flexible surfaces that fold, undulate, and overflow their boundaries. These emerging volumes, covered and ambiguous, suggest presences that are there but not fully revealed, inviting visitors into varied experiences of education, enjoyment, reflection, and knowledge exchange.
The entrance to the exhibition is free. Visitors should consult the museum's hours here. Access to the temporary exhibition requires lining up at the specific entrance for temporary exhibitions and does not include general museum entry.
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