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Light, memory, and transformation: The poetic universe of Eulàlia Valldosera
From September 24 to October 30, 2025
Hall of Mirrors
"Light reveals what remains hidden, giving voice and form to shadows—our denied or forgotten parts." This premise seems to guide the work of Eulàlia Valldosera (Vilafranca del Penedès, 1963), a pioneer artist in a multidisciplinary approach. Her practice moves between installation, performance, and moving image, offering immersive experiences that challenge our perception by uncovering the interconnection between the body, its memory, and its projection into everyday spaces and objects.
Her work revolves around the phenomenon of light, understood in its broadest sense, making use of both media technologies and psychic or spiritual ones. She creates devices that transform domestic spaces into psychological stages, giving life to what appears inert, opening doors to what we consider real and transcendent through projections or reflections that speak to the fears and inner quests we keep in our unconscious, confronting us with collective psychic shadows from a politically personal and critical stance on issues of gender, commodification, and the exhibition context.
She gained recognition at numerous international biennials during the 1990s, while remaining largely unknown in her own country. The impact of the retrospective exhibitions dedicated to her by the Fundació Tàpies (Barcelona) and Witte de With (Rotterdam) in 2000–2001 earned her the National Visual Arts Prize. A decade later, at the retrospective held by the Reina Sofía Museum (2009), she presented an innovative sound project: her interactive bottles—digitally modified cleaning product containers that emitted voices and offered to erase events one wished to forget, though not before first speaking them aloud and recording them inside, thus initiating her participatory works.
She conceives of art as an act of channeling, in which the individual becomes a mediator for a greater consciousness. In projects like The Other Invisibles (Thyssen Museum in Madrid and Picasso Museum in Barcelona), the artist reveals the latent memory of cultural products through interaction with the viewer. With a career that has crossed borders, her mystical activism invites us to reconsider reality as a mutable fabric, where the visible and invisible intertwine in an endless dance of light and shadow.
In her intervention at the Hall of Mirrors, Valldosera draws on the essence of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen to speak of an autonomous Nature that recycles itself ad infinitum, where the circularity of energy surpasses humanity’s efforts to control life cycles. Her work is an invitation to perceive reality as a shifting fabric, in which each element contains the memory of all that has been lived.
Light does not only illuminate, but—as she puts it—“reveals the presence of what has been silenced but not forgotten.”
Eulàlia Valldosera
Born in Vilafranca del Penedès in 1963, Eulàlia Valldosera is one of the most prominent artists in contemporary Catalan art. She represented Spain at numerous international biennials during the 1990s, with exhibitions in places such as Rotterdam, Kwangju, Johannesburg, and Venice, among others. Her career received wide acclaim with the retrospective at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies and the National Prize from the Government of Catalonia in 2001.
Her work is characterized by light-based installations and the use of everyday objects to create psychological spaces that explore our collective imagination, addressing issues of gender, production, and context. Since 2007, Valldosera has delved into the Andean mystical path, integrating her mediumistic abilities into her artistic practice to propose a new vision of reality.
Her most recent research projects, such as Economy of Divine Chance and Informed Water, combine artistic work with healing practices, offering workshops on energy and charting a path toward the healing and decontamination of collective psychic memories, with a particular focus on issues like climate change and pollution.