Había en el fondo del mar

Nuria Mora

Madrid-born artist whose work moves between geometric abstraction, public space, murals, ceramics, sculpture and site-specific installation.

For Había en el fondo del mar, Nuria Mora creates a site-specific intervention for Casal Solleric, transforming parts of the building into a submerged, theatrical landscape. The project is built around the idea of the pecio — the remains of a shipwreck lying on the seabed — using recovered fragments, new pieces, ceramics, metal structures, cables, ropes and glass.

This is not a traditional exhibition inside white rooms. Mora “colonises” the building through three site-specific interventions: one in the inner courtyard and two on the façade, including the loggia/balcony and the urban showcase. The result feels like entering a colourful aquatic fiction, where objects become relics, treasures, family memories and fragments of a possible shipwreck.

Shipwreck as memory. The pecio becomes a metaphor for personal and family history.

The building as seabed. Casal Solleric is not just the venue; it becomes part of the artwork.

Fragments and transformation. Recovered materials and new pieces are assembled into something alive, unstable and theatrical.

Palma and the sea. The project speaks directly to the city’s maritime imagination.