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Between 2015 and 2016, I was one of the artist-in-residence at the Fundación Antonio Gala in southern Spain. The residency is located at an old nunnery, and several patios articulate the structure of the building.
There is a magnolia tree in one of the patios; that was the first time I saw a magnolia fruit, which seemed a very unfamiliar object to me. I decided to study the fruit by doing fast and small drawings of it.
I tried to see and approach the same subject by following different strategies, as Raymond Queneau did in his literary piece Exercises in Style. In Queneau's work, one can read the same episode 99 times, each of them with variations in terms of style and narrative elements but all of them refer to an unique event.
Afterwards, I did an stop motion animation with all the drawings, and, one night, I screened it in the patio where the magnolia tree is.
> 2015, 400 drawings and one animation (31 secs), colour pencils on paper, 6 x 6.7 cm
© Edén Barrena, 2025