Category
Event Management & Cultural Programming
Type of project
Workshops, Collective artwork
Client
ANDA Cowork
Year
2025-ongoing
Collaboration
Carmen Casas Úbeda
The process
La Vita Invisibile unfolded through a series of participatory pathways. Individuals could contribute independently or through one of the ten workshops organized and facilitated by Carmen and myself.
Workshops have been conducted in collaboration with local NGOs and institutions across diverse contexts: two day centers for people experiencing homelessness or precarious conditions in Granada, the penitentiary center of Albolote with incarcerated participants, a high school, the ANDA Cowork community, and other local groups. This multi-context approach reflects the project’s inclusive intention: creating a shared platform for expression across different social realities.
Each workshop is structured in two phases:
1. Conceptualization
Participants engaged in reflective practices designed to help them articulate their personal interpretation of the theme. This phase has taken different forms depending on the group: collective mind mapping and dialogue, individual stream-of-consciousness writing, or listening to literary excerpts connected to the theme. The aim is to move from abstract prompt to personal concept.
2. Creation
Participants then translate their concept into a 15x15 artwork using mixed techniques of their choice, such as collage, visual poetry, embroidery, painting, or drawing.
The methodology has been adapted iteratively, evolving from one workshop to the next according to the specific needs and dynamics of each group.
Each workshop has involved between 10 and 20 participants, resulting in more than one hundred individual pieces. The project is currently ongoing, culminating in the collective assembly of the final artwork and a public exhibition event where contributors and community members will gather to celebrate the shared creation.
The final exhibition
The individual works were brought together into a collective installation, sewn onto a shared canvas and interwoven with a fabric chrysalis, a practice central in the work of the artist Carmen Casas Úbeda. Here, weaving becomes a metaphor for connection and transformation: linking individual, often invisible stories into a shared and visible presence. The piece was unveiled during a public event, where the audience was invited to continue weaving onto it, allowing the artwork to grow as a living network of relationships.