The BBVA Foundation’s Leonardo Grant supports cultural researchers and creators at mid-career stages, recognising those carrying out particularly innovative scientific, technological, or cultural work. This is the case with Alejandro Andújar López, who has been awarded a 2025 grant for his project Obra d’art total, in which elements previously used to create theatre sets are decontextualised and freed from their original purpose, presented as an autonomous and legitimate entity.

This installation will be displayed in the square, under a transparent plastic cover. Step inside, and you will discover what the artist refers to as the “biographical particularities” of the set design for La dona fantasma [The Ghost Woman] (T de Teatre), which premiered at the Teatre Romea in Barcelona in 2023. It offers a chance to explore the various facets of these elements: the one seen from the auditorium, and those that concealed hitherto hidden spaces, such as dressing rooms or backstage areas used by technicians and actresses before taking the stage.

On the transparent cover, a narrative redefines this now inert and enigmatic space, freed from the lighting, sound, and video that brought it to life each night, and detached from the work of the four actresses who once inhabited it.

The creator of the installation is Alejandro Andújar López, born in Cáceres in 1979. He holds undergraduate degrees in Fine Arts from the UCM and in Set Design from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático. He has designed costumes and sets alongside Gerardo Vera, Juan Mayorga, José Luis Gómez, Julio Manrique, and Alfredo Sanzol, among others. In 2023, he was awarded a grant from the Real Academia de España in Rome for a research project on the impact of urban transformations on theatre in 20th-century Rome.