Exhibitions
Sintolanda
Mónica Rikić
Curated by Fèlix Pérez-Hita
GRANOLLERS
L’Adoberia
Plaça de l’Església, 7
From October 16 to November 30
Hours
Until October 31: Saturdays from 6 pm to 9 pm and Sundays from 11 am to 2 pm
From November 2: Saturdays from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm and Sundays from 11 am to 2 pm
Sintolanda consists of a series of robotic sculptures inspired by objects and artifacts found in ancient archaeological sites, imagining the heritage of the future. These kinetic sculptures, handcrafted with motors, plastics, metals, screens, fabrics, and air, move slowly through space, autonomously changing shape, color, or configuration. They appear as functional remains of a past yet to come, materializing an apparently intangible digital memory.
The project offers a poetic reflection on the archive, material legacy, and technological agency. What memories will these machines preserve of our existence?
Mónica Rikić
Mónica Rikić (1986, Barcelona) is an artist who merges technology and philosophy through handmade electronic artifacts and robots. Detached from functionality or productivity, her devices have a critical and speculative vocation, aiming to foster collective thought and to imagine alternative ways of understanding robotics, technologies, and open hardware.
Over the last decade, her work has been exhibited at festivals and institutions worldwide, including Ars Electronica, Manifesta, Loop Festival, ISEA, Creative Tech Week, FILE Festival, CCCB, and Arts Santa Mònica. She has been awarded the National Culture Prize of Catalonia, a Leonardo Grant from the BBVA Foundation, and received recognition at events such as the Japan Media Arts Festival and AMAZE. She has taken part in various residencies, including two within the European S+T+ARTS programme, and her work is held in collections such as MNAC, NewArt Foundation, and DKV.
Fèlix Pérez-Hita
Fèlix Pérez-Hita is an art historian, screenwriter, director, and audiovisual editor. He has been Associate Professor of Audiovisual Culture and Methodology of the Social Sciences at the University of Girona (2019–2021), taught Visual Culture at Elisava, and lectures in the MADD Master’s in Design (Elisava, 2020–2025). He worked for Barcelona TV under Manel Huerga (Boing Boing Buddha) and was the creator and co-director, together with Andrés Hispano for ten years, of the programmes Baixa Fidelitat (XTLC) and Soy Cámara (the CCCB programme), broadcast on TVE2 and online.
Since 2012, he has co-directed with Arturo Bastón the project Hilomental: sesiones videológicas. He has served as advisor to the Panoràmic Festival since its inception, where he has also curated several exhibitions. He has contributed chapters to books and collective catalogues.
