ARQUITECTURAS IMAGINADAS. PARALLEL PROGRAM TERRITORY CITY. ART MADRID'25

Four artists have been invited to intervene in various stations of two of the busiest subway lines in Madrid, with the aim of transforming these subway spaces through different aesthetic languages. The main challenge will be to develop projects that connect in a meaningful way with travelers, turning these stations into inspiring places full of beauty.

This program highlights how art has the power to sensitize and change our perception of our surroundings. The proposal not only seeks to enrich the experience of those who use public transport, but also to promote a reflection on the importance of public space. In particular, the Madrid Metro is presented as a key space for urban mobility and social interaction, and this project aims to foster a greater appreciation for it without falling into a paternalistic approach, but through an educational proposal that invites collective reflection.

Ana Matey. Courtesy of the artist.

Invited Artist: Ana Matey

Can art provide answers?

Location: LINE 1 (route between CUATRO CAMINOS and PACIFICO) and LINE 2 (route between CUATRO CAMINOS TO VENTAS). Metro Madrid.

Time: 10:00-12:00h

Can art provide answers? is a durational and intermittent action initiated in 2021. Each year, Ana Matey presents a new performance whose objective is to collect questions, becoming an archive and memory of an era. Throughout this process, each intervention becomes a call for participation, adding up to four actions, with durations ranging from 51 days to 4 hours.

The new proposal consists of reading the 929 questions collected so far in the carriages of lines 1 and 2 of the Madrid Metro, inviting passengers to be part of the action by formulating their own questions.

In addition, during that day and throughout the art week, the public will have the opportunity to participate by sending their questions to the e-mail address accionmetanoia@gmail.com.

Through this action, we seek to generate a space for collective reflection, where art becomes a means to question and, perhaps, find answers to the big questions of our society.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ana Matey Marañón is an artist from Madrid whose work moves between the visual arts and performance. She studied audiovisual communication, image, photography and Butoh dance. Her professional career began in 2001, and since 2006 she has been deeply involved in live action art, as well as in the field of dynamisation, research and training. Co-founder of the collective El Carromato (2006-2010), a multidisciplinary space in Madrid where ARTóN (2009-2014), a monthly meeting dedicated to the practice, promotion, research and documentation of action art, is born. In 2012 she co-founded EXCHANGE Live Art, a collective research and creation project, and MATSUcreación, a home workshop and meeting place between art and nature through laboratories and different activities (currently on hiatus). Her work is nourished by walking, collecting and moving. She is interested in processes and experimentation through repetitive and prolonged actions in which she exercises observation, transformation and patience to reflect on how time and space affect us in the way we relate to each other. She has participated in action art festivals around the world and her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, theatres and alternative spaces both nationally and internationally and has been recognised with various awards and grants.