{"id":36677,"date":"2025-07-31T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36677\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:40:12","slug":"xevi-bayona-flips-barcelona-pavilion-with-ceiling-bound-house-relics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36677\/","title":{"rendered":"xevi bayona flips barcelona pavilion with ceiling-bound house relics"},"content":{"rendered":"

xevi bayona infuses mies van der Rohe\u2019s pavilion with his memories<\/p>\n

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On view at the Mies van der Rohe<\/a> Pavilion<\/a> in Barcelona<\/a> through August 17th, 2025, \u2018La Padrina and the belongings of domesticity\u2019 is an artistic intervention by Xevi Bayona that turns the iconic building<\/a> into a vessel for personal memory. More than twenty everyday objects, once belonging to Bayona\u2019s late aunt, known as la padrina, are installed along the ceiling of the Pavilion, forming a floating domestic scene that hovers above the polished travertine floor. A bed, a lamp, a coat rack, and a table and chair set all suspended like echoes of a vanished life, now reframed against the austere modernism of Mies and Lilly Reich\u2019s 1929 design.<\/p>\n

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all images by Adria\u0300 Goula<\/a><\/p>\n

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La Padrina creates an aerial archive of presence and absenCe<\/p>\n

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By composing the installation as a horizontal band that runs along the ceiling, architect and artist<\/a> Xevi Bayona creates a visual and symbolic axis that divides sky and ground, memory and presence, and intimacy and abstraction. The installation invites a shift in perception with its upside-down layout. Through this displacement, Bayona invites visitors to rethink how spaces become inhabited and how objects hold on to memory.<\/p>\n

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The intervention draws its title from Josefina Cam\u00f3 Valls, nicknamed Pepi, who was born in 1927, around the same time the original pavilion was being designed, and lived her entire life in Olot, a city in Spain. She never married, worked as an embroiderer, and left behind a house full of quietly accumulated belongings. Bayona, her nephew and godson, salvaged and relocated these personal items from her home to the Barcelona Pavilion<\/a>, not on the floor, as one might expect, but up above, creating a surreal reversal, exploring the kind of domesticity the Pavilion might possess.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Part of the Fundaci\u00f3 Mies van der Rohe\u2019s program of contemporary interventions, La Padrina uses metaphor and contrast to explore life, death, and identity through the overlooked belongings of a single life. For Bayona, whose broader practice combines architecture with ephemeral installations and storytelling, this project is both deeply personal and architecturally precise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2018La Padrina and the belongings of domesticity\u2019 by Xevi Bayona is on view through August 17th, 2025<\/p>\n

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more than twenty everyday objects are installed along the ceiling of the Pavilion<\/p>\n

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a floating domestic scene hovers above the polished travertine floor<\/p>\n

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a bed, a lamp, a coat rack, and a table and chair set all suspended like echoes of a vanished life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"xevi bayona infuses mies van der Rohe\u2019s pavilion with his memories \u00a0 On view at the Mies van…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,21563,1120,96,9143,21564,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-36677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-barcelona-pavilion-mies-van-der-rohe","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-interactive-installation","tag-mies-van-der-rohe","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}