BLACKBOX INTERFASE: Exhibition by 2nd-year students of the Fine Arts Degree at the University School of Arts TAI

Exhibition BLACKBOX INTERFACE will take place in the i23 space. The opening will be on Thursday, May 22 at 19:00 p.m. and the closing ceremony will be on Wednesday, May 28. Second-year students of the Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts are participating in this exhibition. It should be noted that participation is voluntary and not a mandatory activity. The Faculty of Fine Arts is in charge of organizing the exhibition. TAI.

 

In the course of any educational process, there is a turning point: an intermediate zone where knowledge becomes porous, language is still developing, and ideas begin to take shape. This ambiguous but fertile zone is where this exhibition is situated.

Blackbox Interface It connects two key ideas: black box, that system whose interior remains opaque while we observe its inputs and outputs; and the interface, the active border between two states or environments in contact. This exhibition is a look at the second-year students' present as a liminal territory: neither a beginning nor an end, but between phases. An academic equator that is also a surface of contact between intuition and consciousness, between essay and affirmation.

The works gathered here explore different ways of inhabiting this intermediate state. Some explore narrative through animated illustration, such as the work on the spiral of time by Eat or the interpretation of the Muisca legend of The Dorado of Glow, while others adapt classic works by Francisco Umbral and Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Adriana Maguregui and Claudia Torres); proposals that transform words (one's own or others') into image and movement. 

 

Literature—in its poetic, mythical, or critical forms—acts here as a trigger for an expanded image, which translates and transforms through the time-image.

Other pieces opt for the body as a transit surface: Olivia Blasco activates her textile works through performative action, while Scratch creates a suspended piece that transforms the fabric into a habitable boundary. In both proposals, the fabric is both a membrane and an interface.

On the material level, Gabriela Aguirre offers a pictorial work on canvas that unfolds from the intimate into a sort of symbolic dictionary, while Noelia Noriega works on the material translation of memory from different visual arts, perspectives, and strategies.

The sculptures of Carmen Pagola y Lucia SDLH They are placed directly on the ground, marking a physical presence that introduces another form of transition: that of weight, density, and structure. Using materials such as metal, wood, and resin, these pieces explore the relationship between weight and lightness, between what settles and what could rise. 

 

Between the digital and the material, the narrative and the sensorial, this exhibition invites us to understand artistic training not as a linear path, but as a living system: a black box in which knowledge is transformed through inputs, errors, stimuli, and passages. At this point of transition, what's important isn't so much what's already known, but what's beginning to be intuited.

Artists

Adriana Maguregui

Carmen Pagola

Claudia Torres

Gabriela Aguirre

Glow

Scratch

Lucia SDLH

Noelia Noriega

Olivia Blasco

Eat

 

BLACKBOX INTERFACE

Date: Thursday, May 22 at 19:00 p.m. 

Location: Emerging art gallery i23 Ibiza Street, 23, 28009 Madrid

Closing: Wednesday, May 28

Who participates: second-year students of the Degree in Fine Arts

Organized by: Faculty of Fine Arts of TAI