Metàfora Studio Arts Programs

As the course comes to an end, we look back at last week’s Open Studios, a celebration of process, experimentation, and creative growth.

Students opened their workspaces and shared the projects they have been developing throughout the semester, from painting and sculpture to installation, video, ceramics, and performance.

Thank you to everyone who joined us, and congratulations to all our students for sharing their work with such generosity. 🧡

📷: by .films

It’s Open Studios time ;)

Come by, grab a drink & have a chat with the artists.

Thursday 28th
C/ Papin 29, Barcelona
19–23h

👀Meet Helen Torres, teacher of this block’s Critical theory class “Multispecies Feminism” at Metàfora.

A social scientist working primarily within the art field, her practice explores the intersections between language, arts, and politics through feminist and decolonial perspectives.

Helen facilitates workshops on speculative fabulation and leads seminars on the work of Donna Haraway, whose writings she has extensively translated, including When Species Meet.

She teaches critical thinking, q***r theory, and feminist theories, bringing a deeply research-driven and interdisciplinary approach to her work. Currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Barcelona, her dissertation focuses on art practices engaging with fungi and mycelium.

At Metàfora, she invites students to think across species, disciplines, and imaginaries, opening up space for critical reflection and new ways of relating to the more-than-human world.

Last Monday our students stepped into the world of analog filmmaking during a hands-on Super8/16mm film workshop led by at her studio in Badalona.

Exploring the moving image through a tactile and experimental approach, students worked directly with celluloid, embracing its fragility, materiality, and luminous qualities. The session opened space for playful intervention, radical gestures in experimental cinema, and alternative ways of seeing and creating images in motion.

A beautiful reminder that film is not just something we watch, but something we can touch, transform, and reimagine. 🎞️

📷by: .duijnisveld