New imaginaries

From 11 September to 11 January 2026, the Conde Duque cultural centre is hosting an exhibition that explores the intersection between cinematographic practices and artistic spaces, featuring a selection of internationally renowned filmmakers such as Helena Girón & Samuel Delgado, Isaki Lacuesta, Oliver Laxe, Laida Lertxundi, Lois Patiño and Susana de Sousa Dias.

The selected works for this exhibition invite the public to enter a hybrid space between cinematic and artistic languages. This is a common cross-over area stretching right back to the early days of cinema, when the first avant-garde artists began to experiment with visual resources that later became the cornerstone of cinematic language.

The exhibition room has become an essential space for showcasing artistic concerns in a complex, rich and diverse manner by filmmakers. On numerous occasions, this experimentation has led to filtration between the porous boundaries of disciplines, whether they are formal or conceptual, in search of new territories. 

The new imaginaries proposed by the participating artists in this exhibition offer a fresh and original way of seeing, a new form of image and imagination. These artists have been driven to tackle familiar places that need to be rediscovered, a new way to express what has always been there and can never be exhausted.

The exhibition's journey moves through spaces of the collective imagination that range from contemporary events, which have marked the course of geopolitics and the current dynamics of power centres, to old wounds that gave way to new perspectives on postcolonialism and its critical reading of the situation in former colonies or ancient mythologies.

Artistic credits:

• Helena Girón & Samuel Delgado, Isaki Lacuesta, Oliver Laxe, Laida Lertxundi, Lois Patiño, Susana de Sousa Dias
• Curators: Nicolás Combarro and Miguel Ángel Delgado
• In collaboration with: CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea and Cineteca Madrid

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