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False realities
While the Machine distracts us with an avalanche of AI-generated images, ever more dazzling and surreal, our reality grows darker and more banal: the two are tightly intertwined.
Imploding the rules of power
Bianciardi writes: with power the battles are always lost. The point is to lose them better. And to fight them. To fight them knowing that, reasonably, one loses. To lose joyfully is a victory. And the next time one will lose less. This is what makes the rules of power implode.
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Projects 17
The Open Shore (La vora oberta)Body Ebro (La Entrega III)Lighting the void (Enllumenant el buit)TransmutationsSequere (La Entrega II)La Pell de la TerraWithin the Skin of the EarthLloc, lluny, llarNel lieve sovrapporsi di cielo e terraLa Entrega - Act IOn the BorderIt wasn’t the sunParatext #7The Triumph of DefeatRefugium, refugiaEphemeral InformalismRemote locations
Series 28
Vertical landscapeAudiovisuals and sound worksWater RecordsFabrics and OffcutsToponymic cartographyAbstract cartographyMontseny seriesWounded territoryGarzón MapsEnvall notebooksMuseu de Camins, Fórmula MutareSequere MapsSequere, toponymsImpossible TerritoriesSkinsCartography of experienceThe route as a signPortable landscapesNight Maps of the Coma de BurgMemories and Imprints of the Coma de BurgCardboardsBorder landscapesMaremortumPaintings of the RuinThe ruin and the shadowLandscapes of DefeatThe past is nowCaravaggio
Paratexts 18
The river as identityCos d’Ebre Exhibition Catalogue, Lo Pati, 2025Walking towards a deep humanity (Noris, Pacheco González, 2025)Body-Ebro. The river as body, archive, and border (Noris, 2025)The birth of otherness. Towards a littoralisation of borders (Reyna, 2025)Between two waters (Martínez Vilalta, 2025)Words for a community archive (Reyna, 2025)Cos d’Ebre (Pacheco González, 2025)4436 toponyms of the Sequere crossingSequere. The book (Noris, IEI, 2023)Sequere, a corporealisation of memory (Reyna, 2023)Border toponymsOn the Border (Noris, 2018)La Entrega I - TerritoryLa Entrega Act I: ToponymsThe painting carriers of “On the Border”Jordi Font Agulló, On the Border — MuME (2017)What did they do to you, son who did not manage to live? Did you manage to die?
Folios 56
Chronicle of the Siurana TraverseThe Siurana: Anatomy of an ExtractionPongThree readingsAccompanying a living being to the endNomadi: Noi non ci saremoMachine that entertainsThe Revealed CityBody Ebro, day 68Body Ebro, day 36DiseasesThe end, the beginningNetworksThere are alternatives to the oligarchs’ networksNostrBefore closing your X.com accountThe Land of ToysMacchina automatica / no animaDetenuti a basso costoTo leave or not to leave the networks of hate?In Satan’s kingdomThe voice and the horrorWords of ruinLautaro and MaristaEurope is deadEcological footprint in GarzónThe mule’s moveTo the chainsaw gardenersDisempathyBeuys and the «difesa della natura» in 2023PalestineSisyphus18 lost yearsThe Portillón routeLive stream in the Namib Desert (Namibia)New fleshEntropyJoseph Beuys - Manresa HbfAll melody«Here is paradise»TelepathyMillineFrancoChildhoodFinimondoIrresponsibleApriti SesamoIndependentism and democracyNew madnessesChalkLife in a box IIIStubborn LifeLife in a box IIDozenLife in a box IDestroy Yourselves
Resonances 4
Incisions 52
Bringing order to chaosRenewing the gazeFalse realitiesExilesWaitingPermanent tensionNot hating those who hateExploitation and preservationUFOsWateringTosquellian suggestionsThe rhythm of the bodyThe point of no returnLetting goCreation and errorsConsciousness and thoughtsConsciousnessConversationsSelf-disciplineThe song of the birdScreensExperimentingBe patientContemporaryResetIntelligence and stupiditySystem of controlPathsMy time in a spiralA new Middle AgesInner and outerRealityWinterBusyRevolutionSeasonsThree stagesDeconfinementFuture or pastCyclicalityOn the back of winterCageFlying saucersCultivators of violenceControlImploding the rules of powerEscape or rescue?TeachingsAbsences and presencesCracks and simulacraThe glass half fullWorm
Criticism 11
De paseo por los limbos (Anna Adell, 2022)“The Skin” of Marco Noris (Mañà, 2022)A high mountain flâneur, Marco Noris (Adell, 2020)The act of painting (Puyol, 2020)Nel lieve sovrapporsi di cielo e terra (Giaveri, 2020)About Marco Noris. Gesture, landscape (Badia, 2018)Marco Noris, On the Border (Laudo, 2018)Carien Vugts: Tribute to a paintingIt wasn’t the sun (Montornés, 2017)Linear times in painting: (self-)exile - AccaMarco Noris, placeless places (Adell, 2014)
News 104
«Registres dels nostres caminars» — Marco Noris EN RESiDÈNCiA at the Institut Escola Trinitat NovaMarco Noris in El Temps · Wandering as artPriorat Dibuixa at The Open Shore (La vora oberta)El Dorado SFB. Cartography of flamenco placesEl consultori (sessió oberta): metodologies en la pràctica artísticaLa vora oberta (The Open Shore). Isabelle Meyer Prize 2025Feliz, temps, felice, future, tiempo, felice, happy, tempo, futuro, time, feliç 202610 years of Els Ports. Natura i ArtCos d’Ebre, a growing stirBook launch: “550 Days in Tírvia. Writings (1953–1955)” by Gil López GarcíaMarco Noris in residence at Institut-Escola Trinitat NovaThe work “Secano” shortlisted for the “Salou 25 Pictorial Research Award”A community archive of the EbroStratification and Landscape | SWAB 2025Bus from Barcelona to visit the Cos d’Ebre exhibition at Lo Pati (Amposta)Cos d’Ebre exhibition. Centre d’Art Lo Pati, Amposta. 06.09.25–16.11.25Body Ebro in Zaragoza: the river becomes a community bodyThe project Cos d’Ebre (Body-Ebro) beginsViewing Room: Postals des de PiramidónAmposta City Art Biennial (BIAM) 2024“Water Parliaments: Lands of Lleida”. Open forum. Saturday, October 26, 2024, La PaneraLandares 2024, Alcalá de la Selva (Teruel)Marco Noris with Museu de Camins in the book “La fórmula Mutare: Cómo la cultura transforma” by Fundació CarullaExhibition “Is Water Life?” at the Molí de Sant Anastasi, Lleida“Borders. Cut Line”. Group exhibition at the Museu de Llívia. June 15, 2024 - January 15, 2025May 18, 2024: talk at the Museu Hidroelèctric de Capdella for International Museum DayTalk at #Plantauno, La universidad des_conocida, 4 July 2024“Allá donde las playas rotas nos muestran el cielo” in the exhibition 2024_n1, PiramidónSensory walk along the Segre River in LleidaBodies of Water. Watery Embodiments of Matter and SignsTransmutations in Campo Garzón (Uruguay)Re-lligarAutumn in the Vall FoscaThe video of the Sequere presentation at El Born CCM is onlineSequere publication (IEI, 2023)Guided visits to the Sequere exhibition (IEI, Lleida)Enllumenant el buit in Casa Bigodé (Envall)Sequere, exhibition at the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs (Lleida)Beca Mentoratge 23 — Casa BigodéMaking memory. Thursday 13 April 2023«Sequere» and walking as a creative process (El Born CCM)Lecture at the Escola MassanaAnother End. THE REMAINDER — El Born CCMMeeting with the authors of the Sequere art project«Cartographies of Language» begins, a process of community reappropriation — Fundació Els Tres TuronsIn-mobile journeys (Sant Pol de Mar)Walking the Pyrenees — Fundación Hospital de BenasqueWelcome for the «Sequere» project, by the visual artist Marco Noris, in La Seu d’UrgellThe Sequere project and the Tosquellian walks — Grup Pere MataWalking the Pyrenees — CDAN, HuescaSequere, a project on memory and territoryLecture at the UABEmpelt 21On the presentation at Nau CôcleaPresentation of «Lloc, lluny, llar / Grand Tour 2020»Borders. Cutting LineVisit to the Fine Arts Degree studio (Sculpture II)IV Days of Art, Nature and Spirituality«Lloc, lluny, llar» on Núvol«Un món fràgil» — Embarrat 2021«La Pell de la Terra» in the hermitage of Santa Maria de la SerraOn Mediation <eye-framing=OM7>Cover of «La Entrega», Bela’s new solo albumThe mountain — and my work — in the DiS supplement of the Segre (November 2020)Anna Adell on A*Desk: «A high-mountain flâneur, Marco Noris»ERRANT — Itineraries of Art and Thought 2020Solo show «Nel lieve sovrapporsi di cielo e terra» — Piramidón, BarcelonaGrand Tour 2020Beca Walter Benjamin 2020Visit to Rivesaltes and «Refugium, refugia» / MuME — 18 January 2020«Refugium, refugia» at the MuME — Museu Memorial de l’Exili«La Entrega» at the Centre d’Art La Panera (Lleida)Seminar «En Tráns-ito» — Barcelona, 12–13 June 2019«A proposito di Marco Noris. Gesto, paesaggio» — La Rivista di Bergamo no. 96«La Entrega» in Guillem Serra’s article (Ara newspaper)Presentation of «La Entrega», act I, at the CAN of FarreraDelicartessen 17«Art and Nature in Creation 2018» grant for «La Entrega»Interview in the Diari Jornada about «On the Border»Presentation of the project and publication of On the Border«Dues mirades a la frontera» — Dominical del Diari de GironaOn the Border on Pantalles (Betevé)«A la frontera», the bookArt and Memory — «On the Border» at the MuME (La Jonquera)On the Border - Barcelona Producció 2017«On the Border» wins the BCN Producció 2017-2018 grant (La Capella)Marco Noris, artist in residence at Piramidón«It wasn’t the sun» — solo show at Galeria Trama (Barcelona)«Venien de lluny» — group show at Piramidón (Barcelona)«(In)refugis» — solo exhibition at the Temple Romà de Vic(In)refugis 1936/2016 — exhibition at Galeria CànemParatext no. 7 (Hangar)Hangar — Sessions Polivalents 2015: De ProfundisFinalist in the VI Torres García Painting Prize (Mataró)Residency at Hangar.orgThe Wall Art Magazine no. 4 — launch 10 AprilRecomptes @ Galeria SicartRecomptes @ Galeria CànemAnual 2014 de La Escocesa: El Gabinete del Dr. Frankenstein @ Espai MArtificialia @ Cyan GallerySeeking Space @ The Active Space, New YorkMarco Noris in «Extraradi (Outskirts)» @ Casa Elizalde, BarcelonaUnder Construction — exhibition at La EscocesaEphemeral Informalism @ Can Felipa
Transmission 7
Photographic record 5
Visions 15
Press & media 4
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