Barcelona’s Load Gallery is back with another immersive exhibition—this time exploring the human body as landscape, memory, and myth. BODYSCAPES, opening July 17, brings together ten women artists working across photography, AI, video, and performance to ask: what does it really mean to inhabit a body?
The show doesn’t treat the body as object, spectacle, or symbol. Instead, it’s a place. A site of meaning, shaped by feeling, politics, and imagination. In these works, the body breathes, dissolves, fractures, floats, glitches. It remembers. It resists. And sometimes, it simply is—quiet, present, and whole.
Highlights
Christy Lee Rogers and Natalie Karpushenko both shoot underwater, capturing nude figures adrift in poetic, weightless scenes that are as much about vulnerability as they are about freedom.
Farrah Carbonell’s digital portraits move between being seen and staying hidden—offering a nuanced take on feminine presence and misinterpretation.
Ivona Tau’s UnBeautiful flips AI-generated ideal beauty on its head, distorting bodies into geometric abstractions that expose the biases baked into our digital gaze.
Maria Fynsk Norup explores preservation and distortion in a self-portrait series wrapped in plastic—equal parts delicate and unsettling.
Suzana Phialas (Dancevatar) uses AI choreography to explore what a digital body can do beyond imitation.
Performance is woven into the experience, too. At the opening, Pilar Soliveres and Eira Riera will perform Suspendido en el tiempo, a haunting duet choreographed by Tomás Pintos with sound by Zoe Lena Rebecchi. Think fabric, slowness, water, and bodies that drift between presence and disappearance.
Through it all, nature isn’t just a backdrop. Water—literal and metaphorical—runs through BODYSCAPES as a medium of reflection, movement, and change. Like the body, it holds emotion, distorts perception, and asks us to surrender.
This isn’t about defining the body—it’s about letting it speak for itself.
🗓 BODYSCAPES
📍 Load Gallery, Carrer de Llull 134, Poblenou, Barcelona
📆 July 17 – September 13, 2025
🔗 load-gallery.com
🖼 Catalogue by Vetro Editions
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