David Bestué presents "Flor Hispania" a review of the museum's collection curated by Bestué himself at the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo from 01.03.2025 to 24.08.2025

Madrid is the geographical, political, economic and symbolic center of Spain. There are those who think that this quality links the city to the purity of certain values, of a tradition, and there are, however, those who believe that its position obliges it to act as an engine of change for the country. These opposing visions have a physical correlate between those who understand Madrid as something stable, unchanging, and those who, on the contrary, see it as a web of conflicting forces.

Sometimes these webs or force lines end up in a struggle for representation as a way of maintaining or breaking the framework of reality. By observing what has happened in Madrid in recent decades, several possible imaginaries can be sketched, all woven together in a five-chapter exhibition: the survival of the north/south axis as a symbolic figure of the capital; the formal production of official Madrid; practices that try to reveal hidden aspects in the territory; the notion of the unbearable; and works that literally show elements, materials or characteristics of the place.