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About the Gallery
Fy n’Ghariad Gallery is a pop-up gallery born in 2024 in Barcelona. Her founder, Nuria Velasco Blaya, is a former student of Law who did not finished the degree and departed to the UK with a EU grant to study art, design and film. She complemented her education with studies in editorial multimedia, business, accessibility and culture management.
The project has been incubated with many interruptions, with the aim to reach using artistic communication where laws have not yet reached. The gallery aims to specialise in Artivism, by producing contents of all kinds, distributing them and selling them. It will open doors only when campaigns are ready, therefore is not a traditional gallery. In artivism, wants to find a methodology and format compromised with society that designs practical mechanisms that can help citizens and politicians.
Fy nghariad means “love” in Welsh, and that is precisely the angle from which it wants to build contents, from a fraternal aptitude connected, at the same time, with other cultures in danger of extinction.
Nuria Cariad
About the Artivist
Current Exhibition: Open door
8-10-25 | 8-12-25
Previous Exhibition: The Flowers of Sunon
18-10-24 | 25-2-25
Today’s Artivism of Nuria Cariad:
Open Door
“Open Door” is a protest against the hyper-surveillance that Cariad considers is of no use in a context of AI, since it constantly collects data about us, lets it be conscious as unconscious, and can predict our behaviors and reactions whether we like to recognize it or not. This does not take away our freedom, since it is one of the multiple scenarios next to the no-freedom scenarios. Therefore, there are as many possibilities for one aspect as for the other in equal proportions. Currently, one can see bars on the windows and doors, wall alarms, CCTV cameras, watch dogs, Governments are considering drones to watch out, but then, when a tree falls because of the wind on your home, no police, no firefighters, no home insurance will help you get it out. You end up having to cut it yourself into little pieces, and on top of that is cataloged as a dangerous invasive species. What about if you are eighty years old, you live alone, and you have to deal with this fallen tree?, will the drones help you?, and the bars?, and the alarms?, and the CCTV cameras?, and the watch dogs?… It will probably be the neighbors, family, friends and community who might give you a hand.
Cariad looks forward to trusting Humanity again, or at least trying to. With “Open Door” she plays a live performance, in which she leaves the door of the gallery open during the night so that people can visit it freely, without any kind of surveillance. The gallery and herself become a political body, vulnerable to the vibrations of the night and the asleep subconsciousness confronting their demons. A flux between the good and the devil trying to recalibrate a world in conflict. The art pieces hanging on the wall are “The Flowers of Sunon”, her first exhibition, whilst she is working on the table most of the time in her workshop, in a tapestry that she is embroidering by hand. This tapestry is called “The deconstruction of evil” and it will be directly related to Peace, the 17th SDO of the United Nations. The gallery was several days and nights with the door opened the 24 hours without anybody inside, and nobody stole anything, but it shaked a bit. Some neighbors requested, apparently with lawyers behind, that there be somebody inside. Therefore, the protest can only be done in the night and Nuria Cariad is the one who is inside the gallery producing the next project for the 8 hour night shift. 24 hours, over two months, inside the gallery, with an open front door, in autumn, would have been of little profitable impact to anybody.
The protest is not filmed nor documented. There is only the moment alive, so if you have curiosity about what is happening in Vil·la de Gràcia, Barcelona, during the night until December the 8th, 2025, come to see it. You are welcome! But no messing around please! The neighbors might complain!
The Sunon
The Sunon.cat
Artivist Design Futures website published on March the 18th, 2022 in Barcelona. The aim was for people to get in touch with their councils in Catalonia, and ask them to build Sunons in their municipalities. The Sunons are infrastructures of solar panels installed at different placements, like abandoned places, facades, roofs, terrains,…of municipal property, in order to generate green social energy for their neighbours. Therefore, the municipal basis and neighbours organisation are key to obtain the energy sovereignty that Sunon talks about.
The Flowers of Sunon
In this second delivery of work, the collection is of 9 fine art work pieces and 1 fashion piece.
Here we show you a sample of the exhibition:
The Roses of Barcelona
October 2022
At the roundabout crossing Passeig de Gracia and Gran Via of Barcelona, Cariad found the perfect inspiration for the perfect beauty of the symmetrical and organised architecture, the wide space to breathe and the great trapped quantity of light on this busy intersection. The perfect place for the growth of symbolic roses holding hands in sardana, that open the beginning of a great film, the film about the social energy revolution.
The Narcissus of Girona
February 2023
At the square of 1 de Octubre in Girona, which used to be the Constitution square before the Catalan Process, the artivist raises 4 especially symbolic narcissus. The narcissus of Cariad are carmic monuments of energetic protection for the gironian people. Girona has precisely San Narcissus as a patron, however this is another narcissus. There is the vain Narcissus of popular culture, Narcissus the Saint, the karmic Narcissus of Cariad, and Narcissus the flower.
Symbiosis
February 2024
A non-organic entity becomes an organic one. Is the moment in which the solar panels implementation in the buildings becomes the most natural form of life and coexistence.
The third delivery of work, the book, will be sold on demand. You can register your interest and we will let you know when we have it published and the pricing.
Address
Carrer Pou de la Riera 6-8 ground floor 1
08006 Barcelona
Spain
Open
Mondays: 16:30 – 20
Tuesdays to Saturdays: 9-13 and 16:30-20