Selected artistic research projects


Here you can travel between different projects, they are long term artistic research processes framed in the form of exhibitions, transdisciplinary research projects, series of artistic activities and interventions in the public space. I invite you to explore each section as it unfolds a vast range of artistic responses and research on them. 

To learn more about a specific project, simply click on its title and image.



​Ongoing:
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"Dnipro River: Ecosocial Belonging in Wartime" (2025) is a collective artistic space initiated by Seila Fernández Arconada. Focusing on poetic-political encounters with the Dnipro River, this project aims to generate connections beyond human to explore ecosocial uncertainties in times of russian full scale invasion of Ukraine.  More information in the link. 

(Kyiv, Ukraine. Supported by Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant at the first stage) 
“#EstudioFlotante #Floatingstudio, when a river sounds like the Amazon river” is an artistic project inspired by the relationship between human beings and water, in the most important fresh water reserve on the planet: the river Amazon. This project took place taking movement as a creative method by tracing a journey with the river, from the Nevado del Mismi (Peru) to its mouth in Brazil (due to covid19 this project ended in Guadalquivir river) 2019-2022  https://estudioflotante.art.blog/ 
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Exhibited at Itinerarios XVII, (2022-23) Centro Botín (Spain) Images of the installation HERE

"Ritualidades Contenidas. Cohabitar, seguir las relaciones y enredarse".
A project-solo exhibition at Casa del Aguila y la Parra, Santillana del Mar (Spain) 
Exhibition from 1st of July to 16th of August 2022.
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​another world is possible
Collective exhibition at documenta, Kassel (Germany) May 2022. 
   Agua eres y en agua te convertirás (2021)
   (Water you are and water will become) 
   
   Ephemeral intervention and collective sound creation.
​   Site specific creation for Aselart 2021. 
   Herrera de Ibio (Cantabria, Spain)

Cuando el ayer es hoy (When yesterday is today)
Collective action made by Art, Research and Feminism research group. Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Basque Country. Vitoria- Gasteiz 13th of April 2021. 

​Arraigo al agua land art intervention
l'Horta València, Carraixet (Spain), October 2020. 

​Diálogo con el paisaje
 Antropologia, paisagem,sentidos: pesquisa e arte da/na paisagem, residency and            conference in Picote at Arribes del Duero Natural Park, Portugal.
       
As part of HangaroH Collective I was invited to take part at Rising Up, Flowing Down exhibition at the Viennese Watertower to which we contributed with a number of artistic imputs including Handling Source, Method, Sink Tank and Sleep Pods.
For more info: HERE

Artist in residence at Wonder, Wander as part of Spring Sessions, Amman (Jordan). This collective walking residency will be taking place from the beginning of April (for 6  weeks) from Northern Jordan towards South and with the final destination in Sinaí  peninsula in Egypt. A group of 15 artists will be working in artistic approaches and  responses during the journey. Soon updates HERE ​
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Artist in residence at ACVic as part of CAPP (Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme) selected by Hablar en Arte; working with the colective A+ among other local colectives and individuals in the project Adoberies: reactivating and collaborative processes which ended up in the project response: Afluents. 
For more images and info in English: HERE 
Blog of the project in Spanish  Hablar en arte 
Images of the exhibition Sharing Processes at Medialaba Prado: HERE

Natural-ZONE, installation presented at Institut Français Mauritius during the international workshop "Migration, Identity and Belonging" Mauritius, March-April 2017.
Report of the process and outcomes HERE

here-NO-W-here 
A project developed during ENCLAVE Land Art Residency in Vistabella del Maestrazgo (Spain) November 2016.

Misplaced Women, performance in response to Misplaced Women workshop led by Tanja Ostojić. London, December 2016. For more info: performance and Misplaced Women project 

Mūsu? Pasaules koks / Our? World Tree (September 2016- ongoing)
​A work in progress project that began in Aizpute during my residency at SERDE (Latvia)
(Research process info)

​STARP KRĀJUMU GLABĀTUVĒM / In between storage (Aizpute, Latvia, 2016), a collaborative project between the artist Bartaku, Seila Fernández Arconada, Anne Glassner and Laurie Sheridan.

Some:when, celebrating cohesion through the watery heritage of the Somerset Moors and Levels. A socially engaged project in collaboration with Sage Brice. (2014- ongoing)
Granted by the Community Foundation 

Blog link here for further information: http://some-when.co.uk/

The land of the Summer People (2014-2016) 
A transdisciplinary project collaboration with the Water Engineering Department at the University of Bristol about flooding in the Somerset Level and Moors.
For more information check The Land of the Summer People website

Unconscious power, the act of collective creativity 2014
Artistic project done during art residency at Organhaus (Chonging, China) as part of Transnational Dialogues. 

Warning, 2013
A site specific artistic response to of F.C.F. Somerset (UK).

Knock Out, 2014. A sound piece by Eduardo VC and Seila Fernández Arconada.
A site specific response to Here, Now, Where? by Saout Radio as part of the Marrakech Biennial.

Home (2012) 
​Sculpture sound installation presented at the collective exhibition "Try if you like it" 

Mirrors(2011) 
Site-specific intervention at the Old Victorian Lavatories. Bristol (UK). 

Finding thoughts (2011)
Digital photography series. 

​FCF Functional Collaborative Futures is an art research-collaboration that began in 2013 by SFA and BJF in the UK. As it develops we will invite further collaborations internationally. 

This experimental artistic project focuses on collective exchange. Soon more updates will be uploaded.


Soon more older projects will be uploaded, this website aims to become an archive where the
​whole artistic journey can be discovered, first artworks have been done in 2004. 

Thanks for your interest in my practice.