Museum of Fleeting Memories

 Sept. 2, '26 – Jan. 24, '27
Curators: Angie Grijalva, Shalynne Ouellette, Elena Stanley Tobin
Space: Tower Room

This Museum of Fleeting Memories draws inspiration from the works that make up the Generaciones 2000–2024 Collection, housed at La Casa Encendida.

The exhibition is based on the idea that remembering involves rewriting the past from a personal perspective. Thus, the selection made by the curators—graduates of the Master’s Program in Curatorial Studies at the University of Navarra—aims to create a museum of fleeting memories, where a journey through the mind is traced in the form of a labyrinth that ranges from the most superficial to the most intimate and profound. The works seek to represent fragments of experiences, in such a way that they can be reassembled to generate original interpretations of the past.

The curators base their approach on a line taken from Jorge Luis Borges’s poem “Cambridge” (1969): “We are our memory; we are that chimerical museum of ever-changing forms, that pile of broken mirrors,” which offers a glimpse into the poet’s interest in how memory works. His philosophical reflection on memory shares the same desire that drives this exhibition: to understand the complexity of our experiences and memories.

Art, like philosophy, constantly challenges our relationship with memory. Just like the past, the meaning of works of art changes over the years, and we never arrive at a final definition of what we remember or what art means. According to Borges, memory is an individual experience. We store our memories in our minds, which the poet compares to a museum. Within this museum, each memory is like a shard of a broken mirror. These fragments are arranged chaotically, without any clear order or coherence. When they come together, they create an image of the past that is merely an illusion.

Related activities

• Masterclass, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m.