Overview
- La Virreina inaugurated the twin exhibitions on July 10, 2026, and both are free to the public through 1 November 2026.
- Juana Dolores's Declaració d'amor a Lenin is her first museum work and centers on a 26‑minute film that reframes love as a political, class‑based act and uses imagery such as representations of ETA's weapons handover, a mirror of 24 revolutionary portraits, and a personal archive collage.
- Frederic Amat's Vuit assembles serigraphs, originals, photographs, objects and writings in dialogue with eight writers and includes Al filo, a road‑movie style film produced by La Virreina that pairs Chantal Maillard's reading with images shot on the Colmenar de los Montes road on 23 December 2025.
- The openings doubled as an informal farewell for curator Valentín Roma, who used the presentation to close his decade at La Virreina before taking up the directorship of MACBA, highlighting the centre's focus on political themes and literary collaboration.
- The shows combine new film work with archival and mixed media pieces to foreground questions about how love, class and dissent are represented in contemporary art and to keep those works widely accessible to Barcelona audiences through November.