SPAIN

What remains of images once they have lost their function ? Thousands of postcards collected by Oriol Vilanova over more than twenty years cover the walls of the Spanish Pavilion, transforming it into a pseudo-museum built through accumulation. Mass-produced tourist photographs – sent, forgotten, or rediscovered in flea markets – are brought together without hierarchy in a potentially infinite wall composition. These stereotyped images, which once were part of the most ordinary forms of communication, re-emerge as visual residues and traces of individual experiences, fragments of a fragile and dispersed collective memory.