The Municipal Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum 'Soler Blasco' of Xàbia presents Scrapology, a collaborative art project by creators Imma Mengual and Nina Llorens Peters that can be visited from April 1 to May 31, 2026.
The exhibition stems from a collaborative investigation into residue, fragment, and memory, proposing a dialogue between two distinct artistic languages that converge in a shared space. Through paper, found objects, and collage, both artists construct a visual map of their personal universes, inviting the viewer to reflect on the value of what is discarded.
On one hand, Imma Mengual presents the series NUBE.ES, where she explores the transformation of newsprint and industrial materials into suspended sculptural structures. Her work investigates the nature of information in the contemporary era, generating pieces that oscillate between the analog and the digital, the tangible and the ephemeral. These 'clouds' function as floating archives that represent the global information overload.
In contrast, Nina Llorens Peters offers a more intimate approach through collage and assemblage. Her work It is based on what it defines as «archeology "of the everyday," reusing maps, altered texts, and cutouts to create new visual geographies. In her compositions, typography loses its original function to become rhythm, texture, and presence. hairsalon.
The collaboration between these two artists highlights 'scrap'—waste—as a subject of artistic and anthropological study, establishing a direct dialogue with the museum's historical context. Thus, Scrapology presents not only an exhibition, but also a contemporary reflection on memory, consumption, and the transformation of materials.
Imma Mengual, sculptor, researcher and teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Altea (Miguel Hernández University), and Nina Llorens Peters, collage artist and graphic designer with a solid publishing career, combine their perspectives to offer an innovative proposal that connects past and present.
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