Bárbara Sánchez-Kane at Collegium

The exhibition design project for Bárbara Sánchez-Kane’s solo exhibition proposes a belt of galvanized, multidirectional scaffolding that occupies the perimeter of the main nave of the church where Collegium is located. This intervention connects with the idea of ​​a metal shelter or armor, while simultaneously alluding to consumer culture. The artist’s sculptures and paintings are suspended from the scaffolding, which reaches the height of the first ornamental cornice inside the church, 5.5 meters, and rises to almost 8 meters at the apse.

In the words of the curator “How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? is presented in a space where the history of a 12th-century church intertwines with the work of artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane. Weaving inquiries into the construction of identity and the institu- tions that shape it with the memory of this sacred site—which served as a space for the devotion of Christ for nearly five hundred years—the exhibition questions how certain structures of power, such as religion, the state, and the market, shape bodies and impose habits and customs.