The Official Section of the PHotoESPAÑA 2026 photography festival will host a project by Sonia Celma from 8 June to 23 August at COAM, which is based on her daughter’s scoliosis to reflect on the body, architecture and imperfection as an essential part of the human condition.
The architect and artist, Sonia Celma (Alcañiz, Teruel, 1974) transforms a deeply personal experience, her daughter’s adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, into a visual and symbolic exploration of the body, architecture and maternal bond. From the perspective of somebody who has devoted her life to precision, proportion and balance, Celma confronts the challenge of accepting asymmetry and imperfection as essential aspects of the human condition.
The artist establishes a dialogue between her daughter’s body and classical architecture, taking the Roman Mausoleum of Fabara (Zaragoza) as a reference, whose third column, which was repaired centuries ago, still bears the visible trace of a fracture.
The exhibition invites visitors to rethink the body as a living structure, in constant adjustment and understanding fragility not as a limit, but rather as a possibility for transformation.
Image Credits:
- Sonia Celma. From the Columna series © Sonia Celma
