Amid fragmented reflections, mechanical movement, and displaced perception, ESGUARD turns space into something unstable and mutable, never entirely fixed. The piece, made up of robotic manipulators holding mirror fragments and moving slowly, does not merely represent an environment: it constructs and unravels it in real time. Each variation changes what we see and how we see it, activating an experience in which the gaze stops being automatic and becomes conscious again.
Sound is also part of this sensitive architecture. Buzzes, subtle frictions, and the system’s internal rhythms emerge as a delicate acoustic landscape that accompanies the movement and makes audible a machinery that usually remains in the background. With ESGUARD, Oriol Parés proposes a work built around a distinctly contemporary gesture: seeing everything without ever quite looking at anything.
Oriol Parés
Oriol Parés works at the intersection of art, technology, and perception, with a practice centred on the architecture of sound, matter, and information. His work explores how computational languages can be reimagined through art in order to investigate relationships between time, body, and presence, often through devices that alter the way we listen, observe, and inhabit space.
Beca Reddis – New Art Foundation – Eufònic
ESGUARD is the winning project of the Reddis – New Art Foundation – Eufònic Grant, an open call that supports artistic research and production processes requiring time, context, and development.
The piece was developed throughout 2026 in the workshops of the New Art Centre and is presented publicly at Eufònic 2026.
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