NADIA BARKATE AND FÁTIMA MORENO. EL LISTADO
CA2M. Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo
Madrid

This exhibition emerges as a dialogue between the artistic production of Nadia Barkate (Bilbao, 1980) and Fátima Moreno (Granada, 1980) and the collections of Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and the ARCO Foundation, approaching drawing not merely as a technique but as a form of thinking, acting and engaging with space. The institution invited both artists to undertake a reading of the collection centred on drawing while also assuming the role of curators for the project—reconfiguring curatorial work as a more intuitive and embodied process—through a shared and subjective gaze capable of analysing their own artistic languages and identifying both affinities and points of divergence between the works of Nadia Barkate and Fátima Moreno and the pieces selected from the museum collection.

In this sense, the exhibition approaches drawing from an expanded and experiential perspective, avoiding a strictly literal reading of the medium in favour of one in which gesture, pulse and impulse emerge as central elements both in the artworks and in the shaping of the exhibition journey. From this perspective, the works selected from Museo CA2M engage in dialogue with the artists’ practice through symbolic, thematic and material correspondences, generating a visual landscape infused with humour, play and a certain spontaneity.

The arrangement of the works within the gallery space also seeks to break with conventional orthogonality through accumulations, carefully orchestrated disorder and elements placed on both walls and floors. These pieces function as obstacles, signposts or interruptions within an exhibition route capable of bringing into the gallery spaces the impulsive, improvised and relational nature of drawing itself.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication featuring a selection of images of representative works by Nadia Barkate and Fátima Moreno, alongside a text by Tania Pardo, Director of Museo CA2M, exploring some of the affinities and singularities that shape this encounter between the artists.