Victor Ruiz Colomer – International Residency

NeverAtHome welcomes Victor Ruiz Colomer for a short-term residency in July 2026.

In Victor Ruiz Colomer’s recent practice, illumination is a means to work with the material conditions that sustain a ‘projection’ — alluding both to the psychological state in which feelings are displaced beyond one’s body and to the electrical resources needed to flatten a moving image onto a specific surface, even within a specific timeframe.

During his residency at NeverAtHome, Ruiz Colomer will further develop a series of lighting dynamics stemming from recent work previously presented at CC Can Felipa (Barcelona), Cibrián (Donostia–San Sebastián), and ongoing lighting work for Aplauso, Vicio, a performance in collaboration with Élise Moreau and noela covelo velasco.

In parallel, he will work on textual scripts in retrospective relation to the exhibitions in Barcelona and Donostia. These works will be placed in dialogue with research developed alongside Carmen Lael Hines on the Friedensreich Hundertwasser-designed Spittelau Waste Incineration Plant in Vienna.

As a municipally managed energy and waste infrastructure, Spittelau offers a compelling case study in which architecture, thermodynamics, energy distribution, and environmental engineering converge, becoming symbols for the public imagination. The project considers how systems of energy circulation simultaneously operate as systems of visual representation and cultural mediation.