Living Archives
Artist in Dialogue

We closed 2025—a milestone year marking Proyecto´ace’s 20th anniversary—by opening our house through exhibitions, interventions, and open studios. These activities convened a range of artistic practices driven by a shared concern: understanding the body, territory, and matter as living archives, where experience, memory, and transformation take shape.

In this context, ´ace functioned as both a container and a site of resonance for textile, graphic, bodily, architectural, and relational practices, approached as fluid languages rather than fixed categories and without hierarchical distinctions.

Across chromatic research using natural dyes, the body embedded in worn and broken urban surfaces, where friction becomes a site of material memory, fragmentary photographic archives, sensitive geological mappings, and collaborative audiovisual and performative practices, the works explored different ways in which memory is recorded and transmitted. Memory emerges here as an unstable terrain—formed over time, subject to loss and reconfiguration, and continually reshaped through material, affective, and situated gestures.

As both a year-end conclusion and a celebration of two decades of work, this ´aceNITE operated as a collective gesture, reaffirming Proyecto´ace as a space where artistic practices are developed in relation to one another, in friction with their context, and in ongoing dialogue between bodies, territories, and forms of knowledge—understanding art as a mode of embodied and shared inquiry.