Disfuncionarias. Tanit Plana (PHotoESPAÑA 2026)

Tanit Plana presents at the Museo Cerralbo, as part of PHotoESPAÑA 2026, a photographic installation that questions the logics of the archive and traditional systems of representation.

The exhibition Disfuncionarias is part of the PHotoESPAÑA 2026 programme and is displayed at the Museo Cerralbo, a Madrid venue that hosts exhibitions and cultural activities. The proposal is by Barcelona-born artist Tanit Plana, born in 1975, whose work moves between photography, politics and a critical gaze on the body.

The project is an installation conceived for this place, with large-format fabrics that run through the rooms. Its starting point is the figure of the civil servant, who classifies, orders, inventories and keeps everything that can be regulated or preserved. Against that logic, the museum's collections show a reality that always escapes any system of classification.

Artificial intelligence appears in the work as an extension of that old administrative aspiration: turning the world into data and patterns. The images printed on the fabrics lose their rigid form, fold, ripple and spill over the space, and the route invites visitors to observe how the reading of figures once kept in order changes.