Toda mi casa es un altar. Gema Polanco (PHotoESPAÑA 2026)

Exhibition by Gema Polanco at the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas in Madrid, as part of PHotoESPAÑA 2026. An intervention that takes photography towards textiles, objects and bodily action.

Gema Polanco presents at the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas in Madrid an exhibition linked to the PHotoESPAÑA 2026 festival. The project, titled Toda mi casa es un altar, starts from photography and extends it towards other languages: action, the body and sensory experience. It is conceived as an intervention designed for this building and occupies the museum's second floor.

The route opens with a large-format tapestry suspended on the staircase, which serves as a threshold into the artist's universe. From that point, visitors encounter banners, collages, costumes and amulets that turn everyday objects into pieces with a new symbolic meaning. The artist's relationship with textiles and manual crafts draws on artisanal processes, self-taught learning and references from popular culture.

The exhibition engages with the museum's collections and rooms, which are transformed by the presence of the works. It is aimed at those interested in contemporary photography, textile practices and the relationship between the domestic and the ritual, and proposes a route through galleries that invites visitors to pause at each object.