Contemporary Art Exhibition

Ela Fidalgo opens “Fragmento Ausente” at MARC BIBILONI, Madrid

MARC BIBILONI has opened the season with Fragmento Ausente, a solo exhibition by Ela Fidalgo (Palma de Mallorca, 1993) that combines textiles, embroidery, painting, installation, and sound. Timed with Gallery Weekend / Apertura Madrid (September 11–13), the show frames tenderness and vulnerability as intentional positions, not side notes, within a clear, materially driven practice.

Fidalgo presents suspended fabrics, sewn figurative heads, embroidered flags with fragmented phrases, and oversized hands that invite proximity. The installation reads like a material notebook: stitched pages, soft volumes that break the frame, and simple architectures that suggest walls opened rather than raised. The work is intentionally imperfect, process-forward and resolutely human.

The sound component

A new audio layer, developed with Strange Bound, functions less as background and more as sound design for the room. Think ambient length, long-form dynamics, and spatial mix that shapes how you move between pieces. It’s closer to a listening session than a silent white-cube pass: low-level textures, measured pacing, and enough headroom to let the stitched text “breathe.” For electronic-music readers: the emphasis is on texture over motif, sustain over impact, and a mix position that privileges presence and detail.

Artist and context

Fidalgo, who works with fabrics, embroidery, acrylics, and waxes, has steadily built a figurative language that treats imperfection as content. Her trajectory is closely tied to gallerist Marc Bibiloni; the pair first worked together over a decade ago, when her sculptural dresses began circulating as artworks. Since then, she has entered notable collections and exhibited at institutions including La Térmica (Málaga) and Casal Solleric (Mallorca).

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ILR’s culture coverage highlights crossovers between listening practices and contemporary art. Fragmento Ausenteinvites the same attention to layering, repetition/variation, and dynamics that electronic listeners bring to ambient, experimental, and installation sets. If you engage with records for their space, grain, and sustain, Fidalgo’s textile and audio pairing rewards that mode of looking and listening.

Visitor information

• Exhibition: Fragmento Ausente — Ela Fidalgo
• Venue: MARC BIBILONI, Calle Divino Vallés, 12, Arganzuela, 28045 Madrid
• Regular hours: Thu–Fri 11:00–19:00; Sat 11:00–15:00

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_{Words: Zvjezdana Lastre for Ibiza Live Radio}