Composiciones (Compositions) complimented the Barcelona Gallery Weekendprogramme of exhibitions and events by commissioning artists active in the Barcelona art scene to produce interventions that responded to singular private and public spaces outside the contemporary art circuit – including a private psychoanalytic library, a former ceramics factory and a botanical collection.
Pinpointing some lesser-known aspects of the city's cultural history and municipal life, Composiciones offered moments of interruption, intimacy and immersion throughout the weekend.
In the Gardens of La Central del Raval, Nilausen and Llobera's works occupied a former priest's house and explored "acheiropoietic" images – those that have supposedly come into being not by human hand, but miraculously.
Dora García’s contribution consisted in pointing out the wealth of information and the activities programmed by the Biblioteca del Campo Freudiano de Barcelona, founded in 1977 by Argentinean Oscar Masotta (1930–1979), considering the site as a knot which ties together art, psychoanalysis and literature.
David Bestué produced a new installation in the form of a sculptural timeline defined by ignition and invention, fat and oil, obsolescence, fluorescence, luminescence and incandescence – a history of humanity from antiquity to the present day told through the evolution and refinement of lighting technology.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s project took place amongst the subtropical plants of the 1887 Umbracle (shade house) in the Parc de la Ciutadella and centred on the acoustic installation “Surucuá, Teque-teque, Arara” (2012).