Bruna Kury brings ‘Hay Que Tener Estómago’ to Tangent Projects

A new exhibition in L’Hospitalet exploring violence, assimilation, and resistance through sculpture, installation, and material rupture.

Bruna Kury brings Hay que tener estómago (You need a strong stomach) to Tangent Projects, in a solo exhibition curated by Thais de Menezes. The show runs from May 15th to June 12th and continues Kury’s ongoing work around colonial violence, systems of control, and the politics of the body.

Kury’s practice moves across sculpture, film, sound, and performance, often combining industrial materials, fragmented forms, and political symbolism. Here, the exhibition focuses on impact — both physical and systemic — and on what survives within structures designed to absorb, normalize, and erase difference.

Rather than heavily reworking the original curatorial text, it makes sense to let it sit more directly alongside the exhibition itself. The language is dense, but it gives a strong sense of the conceptual framework behind the show.

Curatorial text

Over the course of almost two decades, Bruna Kury’s artistic practice has been challenging the apparatuses of control, surveillance, and capture inscribed within the worldview of imperial-colonial whiteness. Her solo exhibition Hay que tener estómago (You need a strong stomach) operates as a direct counterpoint to a reality traversed by these policies of annihilation.

In this context, neoliberal cynicism presents itself as an economy of global ingestion: a mouth permanently open to capture and assimilation. Nothing lies outside of it — everything is swallowed, processed, and returned as value. Its jaws move under imperialist handcuffs; a regime that absorbs even the rainbow of identities and operates across a landscape of rubble. A deep throat, lined with petroleum, sustains this flow, whose stomach processes the violence that is converted into circulation and fuel for the system.

This cynicism ceases to be a mere posture and materializes in the politics of death and the fetishization of brutality. The spectacle of the brands that finance this disaster seduces with its intense colors, while simultaneously organizing violence against existences marked as targets by coloniality. It is a phallic choreography, sustained by the military industrial complex that quantifies lives as being of lesser value in a bombastic market that revels in the incidence of blows.

It is this politics of impact that perforates, bursts, breaks, and produces an aesthetic of debris and dust. However, Bruna Kury positions herself precisely within the fissure of this regime: fractures cease to be mere vestiges of violence and begin to operate as an active field of negation of that regime and of the creation of other experiences of rupture. Bodies, archives, and dust do not remain as residues of ruin, but affirm themselves as the matter of reinscription and dispute.

Hay que tener estómago thus articulates a position: not that of assimilation, but of metabolization. It is about observing, within the rubble, the counter-force — that which persists from impact and opens fissures within the very regime that produces it. And, in light of this, the question arises: do we also, in fact, possess another stomach capable of reorienting this impact?

— Text by Thais de Menezes

About the artist

Bruna Kury is an anarcho-transfeminist artist, filmmaker, performer, and sound artist whose work focuses on gender, race, class struggle, and structural oppression. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, the LGBT Centre Barcelona, and institutions in Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina.

She is currently part of the Independent Studies Program at MACBA and is working on her third film.

Exhibition details

Exhibition: Hay que tener estómago (You need a strong stomach)
Artist: Bruna Kury
Curated by: Thais de Menezes
Dates: 15 May – 12 June
Opening reception: Friday 15 May, from 19:00
Location: Tangent Projects
Address: Carrer Martí Codolar 41–43, local 2, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat