YOU your WALL and ME

YOU your WALL and ME is a participatory art project developed through an open call inviting people to offer a wall within their homes, workplaces, and everyday environments as a site for artistic intervention.

The project approaches hospitality as a central artistic method. Each intervention begins with an act of invitation, through which the artist temporarily enters private or semi-private spaces and establishes forms of exchange with their hosts. The wall becomes a negotiated surface where personal histories, desires, and emotional conditions are translated into visual form.

Rather than treating collage as an autonomous image practice, the project develops it as a situated and relational process shaped by proximity, conversation, and shared time.

Process

The project unfolded through an online open call inviting participants to host an intervention within their spaces.

Each work emerged through visits, conversations, interviews, and periods of exchange with the participants, allowing the artist to gradually enter the emotional and symbolic structures of the environments. Through this process, hosting operated in multiple directions: participants hosted the artist within their spaces, while the artist constructed temporary situations of attention, interpretation, and transformation.

References to Feng Shui informed the project as an intuitive and relational methodology for reading spatial energies, orientations, and emotional atmospheres. These principles were not applied literally, but functioned as tools for negotiating relationships between architecture, image, and lived experience.

The collages were developed directly within the spaces, transforming installation into a shared performative act and allowing each wall to emerge through a process of mutual translation.

Forms

Site-specific collages (4 large-scale works): interventions developed in direct relation to the architecture, emotional atmosphere, and symbolic conditions of each hosted space

Bicycle route exhibition: a collective route connecting the different interventions and transforming the city into a distributed exhibition space structured through movement and visitation

Online platforms and process archives: a distributed digital environment documenting the development of the interventions, the participating spaces, and the evolving relationships generated through the project across different stages of the process

Visit the website of the project Visit the process blog and the Facebook profile

Context

The project was developed in Barcelona through collaborations with participants from domestic, artistic, and commercial spaces, including Editorial Gustavo Gili, Loring Art, La Xula Taperia, and private homes.

The interventions were later activated through a collective bicycle route and an online exhibition platform, extending the project across both physical and digital forms of circulation.