Ricardo Cárdenas, Isla-Archipiélago-Continente. Unas pocas muchas voces.

During the 2023-2024 academic year, Ricardo Cárdenas was selected by Hangar through an open call to participate in the espais c program. Ricardo undertook his residency at the workspace located in the Ramón Llull public school, which itself was chosen through the Unified Program Call (CUP), an annual initiative by the Education Consortium.

Ricardo Cárdenas: Isla-Archipiélago-Continente. Unas pocas muchas voces
Ricardo’s project established a dynamic listening lab shared with students, centered around a flexible concept of community radio. His methodology employed diverse auditory formats such as podcasts, audiobooks, radio dramas, and the activation of sound libraries reflecting the space and its inhabitants. These formats served as catalysts for initiating a creative framework that fosters encounters and collaborative development of strategies and interests with the students. This approach transcends individual artistic expression structures, emphasizing a horizontal sharing of knowledge and valuing subjective experiences as the foundation for action.

Ricardo Cárdenas
His work seeks to create spaces for the re-signification of poetic gestures based on a political reading of the context. He regularly works in direct relation to the specific site and in complicity with the community where and with whom he develops it, using strategies between sound, text and image.

He is an undisciplined artist in terms of forms and means of production. He develops his work flexibly through a research practice that seeks to transcend the constrained structures of time and logic common to contemporary artistic practice.

In his work, he develops strategies that emphasise and question the homogeneity of social narratives, situating projects from narratives that emphasise the power of micro-histories as forms of opposition to hegemonic narratives that provide spaces for subjective expression and stimulate the development of other forms of political imagination.

He has a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Art and Design (UNAM) and studied in the SOMA training programme (Generation 2015) in Mexico; he is also a graduate of the MACBA Independent Studies Programme 2017.

He was awarded the BCN Producció 22-23 grant with the project: A la deriva. Contranarrativas emocionales de la inmigración. He has been selected in the XVII Biennial of Photography of the Image Centre and winner of the Casa Vecina Cultural Residency Grant 2016. He has shown his work in different spaces in Mexico, USA, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Holland. Since 2018 he has been collaborating with the Grup de Treball de Ràdio Web MACBA.