Cien miradas: el techo que late

The Universidade de Vigo opened an exhibition on May 21 that asks visitors to stop looking straight ahead and look up from the floor instead. “Morea,” installed in Sala O Abrigo at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra, gathers audiovisual works by more than 100 students from the subject *Imaxe en movemento* in the Fine Arts degree program. The pieces are not shown on a wall or a conventional screen. Three projectors send the images toward a ceiling covered with suspended fabric, and the public is invited to watch from colored mattresses placed across the room. ### Why are people being asked to lie on the floor? Sala O Abrigo has been reconfigured so the viewing position is horizontal rather than upright. The university said the ceiling has been covered with hanging cloth, turning the room itself into the projection surface, while mattresses on the floor allow visitors to watch the works from below. (uvigo.gal) The teaching team behind the show said the installation is meant to alter the usual relationship between viewer and artwork. In the university’s description, the project is “an exhibition to inhabit” and an exercise in “pause, immersion and coexistence,” language the curators used to describe the slower, more bodily mode of viewing they wanted to create. (uvigo.gal) ### Who made the work in “Morea”? More than 100 students from the Universidade de Vigo’s Fine Arts faculty contributed the pieces in the show. The works were produced in *Imaxe en movemento*, a course in the Fine Arts degree, and the exhibition brings together a broad selection rather than a single collective film or installation. (uvigo.gal) The curatorial team consists of the course’s lecturers Cynthia Alfonso, Iria Vázquez, Xisela Franco and Berio Molina. The student collective Luscofusco coordinates the Sala O Abrigo space, according to the university and local coverage. ### What kinds of images are on the ceiling? (uvigo.gal) The curators said the exhibition spans several forms of contemporary audiovisual practice. The selection includes video art, experimental animation, digital appropriation and what the university described as “visual hacking,” alongside other moving-image experiments produced by students. (uvigo.gal) Three projectors are used to distribute those works across the fabric overhead. The result, the university said, is to turn the architecture of the room into a “live and vibrant” surface, shifting attention from a framed object to the act of looking itself. That characterization comes from the curatorial text published by the university. (uvigo.gal) ### Where is Sala O Abrigo, exactly? The exhibition is in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidade de Vigo in Pontevedra. The faculty’s address is Maestranza, 2, 36002 Pontevedra, according to the university’s faculty page. O Abrigo is an exhibition space within that faculty that has been used for student-led and faculty-linked projects. (uvigo.gal) Recent university notices describe it as a site for exhibitions and other initiatives promoted by students, which helps explain why “Morea” combines course work, curatorial framing and student coordination in the same room. (uvigo.gal) ### How long is it on view, and what should visitors check before going? “Morea” runs through June 4, the university said when announcing the exhibition. Local coverage published on May 21 and May 22 described the show as newly opened and already on public view in Pontevedra. (uvigo.gal) Visitors should check current opening hours before making the trip. The confirmed details available from the university and local reports establish the venue, opening date and end date, while day-to-day access information may be updated by the organizers or the faculty. (uvigo.gal)