Graner launched the Black Box project with the resident artists selected through its 2025 open call programme, responding to the centre’s interest in experimenting with methodologies for documenting creative processes. The Black Box collects traces of what happens in the Graner studios throughout the year: residues of artistic processes, discarded ideas, unexpected discoveries, accompanying music, helpful references, unanswered questions…
At the first residency gathering of the year, each artist receives an envelope to gradually feed the Black Box whenever they come to work at Graner. The first materials they include are questions from other residents about their project, bibliographic references, and initial intuitions. At different moments throughout the year, Graner also proposes questions or prompts to generate further material. At the end of the year, a text is commissioned to weave together all these traces, to look at them for the first time and speculate on the comings and goings of the artists. This exercise in affective archaeology gives voice to the often intangible margins of creation.
The Black Box narrative for 2025 was commissioned from Joaquín Collado. Joaquín’s Black Box text is exhibited at the Graner space throughout 2026 and has also been published as a limited-edition printed publication.
We would like to thank the resident artists selected through the 2025 open call programme: Lautaro Reyes, Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou, Alberto Velasco, Candela Capitán, Juan Carlos Panduro, alina sokulska, Reinaldo Ribeiro, Lu Chieregati, Estampa, Sandra Sotelo, and Javier Martín.
