A Second Look

Madrid, Spain

Madrid has icons you pass by every day. This one asks you to stop — and look again.

Fundación Canal

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Fundación Canal

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The Movement

Architecture, Video Art Movement

ArtLovers Tip

Don’t experience this as something “inside” Madrid, but as Madrid revealing one of its hidden interiors. The magic is in the title: A Second Look. Take something familiar — a structure, a city, a daily route — and let art make it strange again.

Exhibition Highlights - What you’ll see

Large-scale contemporary video installation, with connections to site-specific art, architectural intervention, photography, light, movement, and perceptual experience.

Rosa Muñoz reinterprets the Plaza de Castilla elevated water tank by fragmenting and rebuilding its architecture through video art.

Volver a mirar / A Second Look transforms one of Madrid’s most singular urban structures into an immersive visual experience.

You’re watching:

  • A Madrid architectural icon seen from the inside
  • Video art that fragments and reconstructs space
  • Light and movement changing how architecture feels
  • A journey between what is visible and what is only suggested
  • A rare chance to enter the interior of the elevated water tank while the installation is open to the public.

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you love art that changes how you see the city.

Because this exhibition is not only about watching a video installation. It is about entering a normally inaccessible urban landmark and experiencing it as art.

It also forms part of a double anniversary context: the 175th anniversary of Canal de Isabel II and the 25th anniversary of Fundación Canal.

How to experience it

Go with time — the space itself is part of the artwork

Look up, around, and across the architecture, not only at the projection

Let the movement and light change your sense of scale

Think about water, infrastructure, and memory as hidden layers of the city

Visit it as an urban discovery, not just an exhibition

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