As part of the ‘Vision and Presence’ programme (a series of three performances featuring female artists, organised in collaboration with the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum), LABoral presents a performance by the artist Teresa Correa, the second of the three to be held in 2026. The series features works created by the artists Noemi Iglesias Barrios, Agnes Essonti and Teresa Correa, following their exhibitions at the Madrid museum.

Through their works, the artists will address various issues of our global present, such as the questioning of romantic love, identity and a sense of belonging, as well as the Western aesthetic canon found in museums.

Performance schedule:

• Teresa Correa – Herida de espejo con tijera | 15 October 2026 at 6.30 pm at the Jovellanos Birthplace Museum | Free admission

Teresa Correa presents Herida de espejo con tijera, a performance that engages in a critical dialogue with José María Navascués’s No sabemos cuándo va a comenzar (1974), at the Jovellanos Birthplace Museum.

Drawing on her experience as a breast cancer survivor, the artist cuts a paper dress in front of the sculpture to tear away the veil of representation and reveal the wound as a space of resistance. The performance challenges the museum as an institution that decides what is preserved, what is exhibited and what is left out of the narrative, and the Western aesthetic canon that underpins its galleries: a canon that fails to recognise bodies which do not conform to its norms and relegates them to the realm of the pathological. Added to this exclusion are the delays in diagnosis, which turn waiting into uncertainty: we do not know when it will begin.

Echoing the slogan of the feminist artist Barbara Kruger, ‘Your body is a battlefield’, the performance culminates with the inclusion of other women, companions with diverse bodily experiences. Together they occupy the gallery and turn dissent into a public act, leaving the question open to those who watch: which bodies deserve to be seen, touched and remembered, and who decides? No one is excluded from that question.

• Noemi Iglesias Barrios – Auction of Emotions | 24 April 2026 at 6.30 pm at LABoral Centre for Art | Free admission

This performance presents a long-term performative experiment that explores patterns of behaviour socially agreed to be romantic and used as a tool to elicit affection.

Ten objects resulting from this experiment will be released into the public domain on 24 April at LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation.