DRIVING, DREAMING, DRIFTING
13 Feb – 25 Mar 2026

Opening February 13, 2026
With a performance by Natalia Domínguez
Artists: Natalia Domínguez and Paco Ladrón de Guevara
Curated by: Marenka Krasomil

Driving, Dreaming, Drifting focuses on the impact of the automobile on the environment and the city. It considers how public space is shaped by social hierarchies and systems of exclusion. Drawing on queer-feminist perspectives that value fluidity, embodiment, and collective participation, the artworks propose alternative ways of thinking about mobility and public space in more inclusive and equitable terms. Initiated in Stuttgart, the project echoes its ideas in Brussels and Barcelona.

The exhibition in Barcelona is accompanied by a publication with contributions by: Camila Cañeque, Cara New Daggett, Natalia Domínguez, Julia Hainz, Arnau Horta, Paco Ladrón de Guevara, Kenza Lansari, Hannah Lyssens, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.), Jasmin Schädler, and Selma Selman.

WORKS

RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER
By Natalia Domínguez
Video documentation, colour, sound, 11:55 min, 2025

The performative work of artist Natalia Domínguez examines the connection between masculinity, sound and collective identity. Car engines and industrial noise have historically been associated with strength, progress, and dominance. The project examines how these sonic codes continue to shape the cultural imagination around technology. The title refers to the sound of an engine idling (ralentí) alluding to the practices of motorsports, where sound becomes an acoustic statement and performative moment of masculinity, power and control. In an experimental composition with five performers and a car, human voices enter into dialogue with engine noises: both as a sonic intervention, a political gesture, and a polyphonic choral.

A performance by: Natalia Domínguez
Sound production: Servei and Natalia Domínguez
Choreography: Natalia Domínguez, Stella Covi, Bar Gonen, Pauline Michel, Julian Sturz, Lem TragNguyen
Performers: Stella Covi, Bar Gonen, Pauline Michel, Julian Sturz, Lem TragNguyen
Camera: Florian Siegert
Editing and post-production: Alina Ozerova

RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER
Performance, 13/2/2026

As part of an ongoing investigation, artist Natalia Domínguez examines the relationship between masculinity, sound, and collective identity. RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER unfolds as a two-part performance. The first part was realised in Stuttgart in the context of Driving Dreaming Drifting, where five performers interacted with a car in public space.
In Barcelona, the second part of RALENTÍ: TICKING OVER shifts focus. Rather than confronting the car as a whole, the performance gradually dissolves its image by fragmenting it. Two performers engage with individual components of a vehicle, foregrounding a more intimate and embodied relationship with the machine. Here, the body becomes the support structure: holding, activating, and re-signifying the object. Human voices enter into dialogue with mechanical residues; breaths, hums, and echoes are forming a sonic composition.

Performers: Lucía Flores, Silvia Galí and Maria Oliver
Sound and performative assistance: Mar García and Javier Soler
Sound production: Servei and Natalia Domínguez 

Ralentí ticking over, Natalia Domínguez, 2025_ CURRENT_Kunst und urbaner Raum © Luzie Marquardt

Autopsy of a Soft Wreck / BBY CNT U SEE?
By Paco Ladrón de Guevara
Video, 16:40 min., colour, sound, 2025

Autopsy of a Soft Wreck / BBY CNT U SEE? is a video work by Paco Ladrón de Guevara, produced as part of the performance of the same title for the project Driving, Dreaming, Drifting and presented within the framework of Current – Kunst und Urbaner Raum in Stuttgart. Situated at the intersection of performance, moving image, and choreographic research, the work examines the accident as both an aesthetic and cultural constellation.
Through the use of pop-cultural references, the video unfolds a tension between desire, danger, and mediated visibility. Karaoke settings, autopsy reports, and AI-generated scenarios serve as points of departure for newly written, speculative texts and corporeal images. The body is not conceived as an objectifiable whole but as a fragmented, discursively produced surface. Accordingly, the accident is approached not as an endpoint but as a process of transformation. The work foregrounds a condition suspended between pleasure and injury, control and loss of control, in which normative notions of wholeness and stability are called into question. The video concludes with archival footage of family gatherings from the artist’s personal archive, creating a link between lived past experience, the origin of ideas, and the fictional potential of the present.

Direction and choreography: Paco Ladrón de Guevara
Text assistance: Tyler Cunningham
Music production and mix: Yannick Schroth
Music Production: BIGOTE

Driving, Dreaming, Drifting is a project by Art Public Space – Culture Matters gUG as part of CURRENT – ART AND URBAN SPACE CURRENT – ART AND URBAN SPACE in collaboration with Centre Cívic Sant – Andreu Districte de Sant Andreu,  Fabra i Coats. Fàbrica de Creaciò Barcelona, and Recyclart in Brussels. 

Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media)