Fito Conesa installation at the Hall of Mirrors of the Gran Teatre del Liceu

With the subtle and poetic idea that there are sounds which are not heard with the ear, but with memory, we immerse ourselves in the universe of Fito Conesa (Cartagena, 1980), an artist who has made voice, narrative, and sound space the core of a practice that moves between installation, video, and performance. His work investigates the mechanisms behind the construction of collective memory and the ways in which power —political, economic, or cultural— shapes the narratives we inhabit.

Conesa often works from documentary materials, testimonies, and archives which he transforms into poetic devices capable of activating a critical listening. His installations do not impose a closed discourse, but rather propose an immersive experience in which the word is fragmented, repeated, or shifted, generating an area of echo and resonance. The viewer is not a passive recipient, but a body that crosses a field of meanings in tension.

The sonic dimension is central to his language. The voice —sung, recited, or recorded— becomes a plastic material, capable of constructing invisible architecture. In this convergence between sound and space, Conesa reveals what often falls outside the official narrative: minor histories, shared fragilities, buried memories. His work thus articulates a poetics of vulnerability that does not forgo critical lucidity.

In the Hall of Mirrors at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Fito Conesa's installation establishes an especially intense dialogue with the musical and scenic history of the space. The piece activates the site from a contemporary perspective and introduces a layer of meaning that interrogates the relationship with memory, between voice and power. The reflection of the mirrors multiplies the presence of bodies and amplifies the perception of sound, thus turning the architecture into a symbolically resonant chamber.

Thus, the work not only occupies the space, but transforms it into an expanded listening experience. In this encounter between sound art and heritage, Conesa invites us to reconsider what it means to listen in a time saturated with images and discourses. The installation ultimately becomes an exercise in attention: an invitation to inhabit silence as a space for thought and to recognize that every voice, even the most fragile, can alter the way we remember.