Every time we eat, we connect our palate to a multitude of remote places: supermarkets, greenhouses, farms, warehouses, logistics networks, cold chains, landfills... Despite their immense importance, these uninspiring architectures rarely receive the attention they deserve. But in a world where the molecular becomes tectonic and where every bite reverberates throughout the planet, now more than ever we need to rethink our food systems and their implications on the ecosystem.
When we eat, we digest territories. FOODSCAPES proposes a journey to architectures that feed the world: from the home laboratory that is our kitchen to the vast operational landscapes that feed our cities. At a time when debates on energy are more relevant than ever, food remains in the background, and yet the way we produce, distribute and consume it moves our societies, molds out our metropolises and terraforms our landscapes more radically than any other source of energy.

Through an audiovisual project consisting of five short films and a documentary archive that doubles as a recipe book, FOODSCAPES explores the agro-architectural context of Spain – the food engine of Europe – to analyze the present state of our food systems and the architectures that shape them. By doing so, we look to the future and wonder about other possible models that can feed the world without devouring the planet.

Between whispers. Fictions and narratives in contemporary art explores the ability of art to tell stories, and the way in which these stories are created, transmitted and received. Presented within the framework of the FIL, a unique place to engage with book enthusiasts, the exhibition allows us to explore the relationship between the visual arts and literature, discovering how they reflect each other, complement each other, overlap, and merge.
The works of the exhibition artists tell stories that are not completely true or completely untrue. They take place in an intermediate space, where doubt and the acceptance of doubt are essential. An imprecise place, but one which we all know exists. From here, they develop different strategies. Some focus on the words themselves, squeezing out every drop of meaning or phonetic concept. Others follow the lines marked by narrative structure and the events they relate, the construction of discourse, the reception by the viewer / reader, as well as their emotional involvement and the persuasive effects of the whole process.
The reflection on our perception and the construction of reality passes through many of the works on display. At a time when we find ourselves in eco chambers, where sophisticated computer algorithms decide a good part of the information we receive, we should ask ourselves how we combine this data, which is both multiple and questionable, to construe a story about the world we live in, and how we should try to put in order all the information we receive.
 

Spain in the sixties was characterized by a fertile paradox: the incipient political transformation resulting from the country's economic growth gave way to increased resistance to the Franco regime, which would end up shaking the foundations of the dictatorship in the following decade. In the heat of this climate of increasing opposition to the regime, an intense era of artistic experimentation flourished, starting in 1962 and continuing for ten years, arising from an expanded notion of writing and the desire to tie art to life and to the social sphere. 
Artists such as Julio Campal, Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Elena Asins, and Julio Plaza, among others, and art associations (Problemática 63, Grupo N. O., Zaj), created works that experimented with the plasticity of language, by pouring it over any plot of experience (space, time, body, objects, the city), with the intention of provoking unconstrained concepts of reading, surrounding poetry with all forms of the arts and, above all, bringing author and spectator closer together.
Marked by historic events leading to increasing tension between civil society and the government, this exhibition also shows the political slant starting to appear in this experimental writing and other art forms in the last days of the Franco dictatorship. In short, the exhibition follows a decade in which writing in Spain acted as an axis for play, meeting, urban journey, music, the generation of new forms and, especially, public, poetic and political activity.