"La quimera de la report," an exhibition by students in the Master's Degree programs of study , is on view at La Casa Encendida in Madrid
Thanks to the partnership between the University of Navarra Museum (MUN) and La Casa Encendida, student body Master's Degree programs of study have had the opportunity to design an exhibition on works from the institution’s collection
. Following a competition in which various curatorial proposals were submitted, the project of Unconscious Memories” was selected to be realized and exhibited in one of the MUN’s exhibition halls.
22 | 06 | 2026
La Casa Encendida hosted the graduates Master's Degree programs of study MUN to present a sample based on works from its collection. This meeting as a preview and presentation the exhibition will be on view at the University of Navarra Museum starting next season.
Each year, the Master's Degree programs of study Museum programs of study the University of Navarra offers its students the opportunity to design an project based on the collections and works of various museums and cultural institutions.
Last academic year, La Casa Encendida made its space and collections available to student body Master's Degree student body goal they could explore them and develop various curatorial proposals.
After work a course work these exhibitions, the student presented his proposals to a panel consisting of faculty Master's Degree faculty , the director Casa Encendida, and the institution’s co-director of New Audiences. Following this process, one of the projects was selected to be realized and exhibited in the galleries of the University of Navarra Museum itself.
“Working with La Casa Encendida has been an extraordinary opportunity,” says Angie Grijalva, one of the curators.“The most enriching aspect of our research the very nature of the Generaciones Collection. By bringing together works by artists selected between 2010 and 2024, the collection allowed us to observe how a single topic— report , report our case—has been approached from very diverse contexts. Many of these artists have ties to Spain, but they also bring experiences and references from other cultures and countries. Thanks to that diversity, we were able to understand report a phenomenon that transforms depending on the personal stories, places, and cultures from which it is recalled.”
Thus, on September 3, the MUN will open the exhibition de Memorias Inconstantes*, curated by alumni Angie Grijalva, ShaLyeen Rae Ouellette, and Elena Stanley Tobin.
In anticipation of this upcoming opening, the students were able to visit La Casa Encendida to present their proposal of Unconscious Memories*, at the venue where they staged their exhibition.
The exhibition, which draws on works from the La Casa Encendida collection, stems from a core topic preoccupied its curators: What is report? Are our memories truly real, or are they constructs we create based on the small fragments we recall?
During their research these ideas, the curators found a song in the literature that directly addressed the topic. Specifically, Jorge Luis Borges had already explored this idea, particularly in his work “Cambridge,” which ends with the following sentence: “We are our own report; we are that chimerical museum of ever-changing forms, that pile of broken mirrors.” With the goal understanding what reference letter the concepts of a “chimerical museum” and “broken mirrors,” after an extensive research process, research that Borges was referring to our memories as distorted and reinterpreted fragments. In other words: loose pieces with which we construct the narrative of what we believe happened.
The idea of “chimeric memories” refers to two aspects: on the one hand, that dream or illusion—like the one we have in the face of uncertainty about the past—and, on the other, the mythological Chimera—a creature composed of parts from various animals—as if report were that report construct from multiple fragments.
That chimera of report—born of our minds—comes to life in this exhibition the works of La Casa Encendida’s Generaciones 2020–2024 Collection. “Our interest in report from meeting the works in the Collection itself. We realized that many of the pieces were related to report. From there, we found connections to literature—especially Borges’s quote—but we also came to analyze the topic a scientific perspective. We discovered that many of the conclusions reached by disciplines such as neuroscience— report reconstruction, as something fragmentary and in constant transformation—had already been intuited by art and literature.”
Thus, this exhibition draws exhibition into our own chimera, inviting us to reflect on how the mind fills its own voids, layering memories to give rise to what we call report.”