The Cultural Activities Service of the University of Salamanca inaugurates the exhibition titled 4Paredes / 4WALLS II 2025, a work by the artist Ausín Sáinz that is integrated into the emerging video creation program called Escape Speed.
The fundamental purpose of this institutional initiative is to offer visibility to the work of young creators, curators and researchers who are currently redefining the hallmarks and cultural codes of the moving image. Through its various formats, the project raises a deep reflection on the temporality of the image in an era marked by the constant and massive circulation of information.
Ausín Sáinz’s artistic proposal stages a retrofuturist dystopia with post-apocalyptic nuances and a narrative full of sarcasm. As explained by Javier Panera, director of the Cultural Activities Service, the work delves into major social problems such as the high degree of pollution and the housing crisis in the main urban centers of Spain. A notable aspect of the production is that, despite using advanced digital technology, the author opts for a vintage aesthetic that evokes the visual experiments of cinema pioneers, such as Georges Méliès or Segundo de Chomón.
Through this visual language, the artist addresses the right to housing and the growing difficulty that citizens face in accessing a decent home. Sáinz reflects on the skyrocketing price of rents, a situation driven by the high demand for tourist apartments and the consolidation of investment funds that have cornered a large number of properties, including officially protected housing. During the presentation, the author pointed out that this phenomenon forces citizens to move their homes to the peripheral limits of the cities, in many cases finding themselves condemned to inhabit tiny spaces.
The 4Paredes / 4WALLS II 2025 exhibition can be visited in Room B of the Hospedería Fonseca from Tuesday to Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., while on Sundays and holidays the room will remain open only in the morning, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
