BARCELONA.- Bird Machine Dream encompasses various moments in the trajectory of artist Teresa Solar Abboud (Madrid, 1985).

The exhibition immerses us in a body of work that questions notions of reality, verisimilitude and fiction, comprising an artistic universe brimming with things that are not what they seem. It is a space where hybrid forms and chromatic alterations suggest a world situated between the simulated—phantasmagorical and the corporeal—geological. Using figures reminiscent of organic elements, Solar Abboud creates a dream-like dimension in order to envision stories around isolation, connectivity and metamorphosis that appeal to a fragmented contemporary subject in constant flux.

In times when everything seems disembodied, the work of Solar Abboud transports us through a sensorial experience to a more tactile space and suspended temporality. A prehistoric fossil dreams of becoming a machine, an excavation machine dreams of being a bird, a dream becomes a bird-machine—all these movements are activated during the journey offered by the artist’s imaginary.

Bird Machine Dream is the second chapter in Teresa Solar Abboud’s evolving exhibition series, a journey that began at the Museo CA2M with Machine Dream Bird and will culminate at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, in a last chapter entitled Bird Dream Machine.

Curated by Tania Pardo, director of the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and Claudia Segura Campins, head of the MACBA Collection.