Fichas de cantar y nadar [Singing and Swiming Records](2025)
Artist’s book Digital printing, colour [playing cards]
16 elements; 10 x 15 x 4 cm each
BA Collection
Registration No.: 2025.638.16
His practice shifts between visual art, performance, videoart, installations and action; he explores the crossroads where artistic production, everyday life and social contexts meets, with specific interest on questioning the dynamics of artistic practices and its relationship with the setting. In 2018, he embarked on pieces that emerged from the routine of swimming from Barceloneta beach until he was in line with Mount Montjuïc, as he wanted to establish a connection and communicate with it. In 2025, he continued along the Muriola-Gorliz coastline, which led to a series of performance works, photographs, drawings, videos and audio pieces, which reflect his work process. The artist thus explores the spatial potential in order to infiltrate in structures, architectures, landscapes and other bodies to reformulate the established order.
Marc Vives Muñoz (Barcelona, 1978) sings and swims. From the performative realm, he works with the materiality of the voice and its sculptural potential, aiming to infiltrate architectures, landscapes, and other bodies to reformulate established orders. He acts as a medium for pre-existing elements and their ancestral forms of enunciation, far from speech, within a holistic ecology. He has presented his work at Rogaland Kunstsenter (Stavanger, 2016), Redcat (Los Angeles, 2016), etHALL (Barcelona, 2018), MACBA (Barcelona, 2021), and performed at Antic Teatre (Barcelona, 2020), CCEMX (Mexico, 2020), Festival Grec (Barcelona, 2020), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2021), Performa (Santiago de Compostela, 2023), MUSAC (León, 2023), Collegium (Arévalo, 2023), and MAC PANAMÀ (2023). Occasionally, he collaborates with other artists; between 2002 and 2012, he was part of the Bestué-Vives duo, exhibiting at the Venice Biennale 2009.