The exhibition imagines other possible futures through art, science fiction, and oracular thinking. It proposes a journey to transform the uncertainty of the present into creative momentum.

The Colexio de Fonseca will host the exhibition Speculative Fictions from October 16, a collective show exploring how contemporary artists use science fiction, dreams, and oracles as tools to construct alternative visions of the world and the future. 

The exhibition is curated by Aránzazu Pérez Indaverea, Guillermo Rodríguez Alonso, Abraham Cea Núñez, and Federico L. Silvestre, and is organized by the Vice-Rectorate for Students and Culture of the University of Santiago de Compostela, in collaboration with the Institute of Humanities (IHUS) and the Research and Development in Arts and Humanities group (IDEAHS).

The exhibition

In a moment dominated by dystopian narratives, Speculative Fictions acts as a counterpoint, claiming imagination as a space of power and resistance. The exhibition is structured around three conceptual axes that guide the visitor: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “fiction bag,” which invites the creation of stories from new perspectives; the marvelous and oracles as ancestral tools to decipher the future; and the scientific hypothesis understood as a creative starting point.

The exhibition brings together works by a dozen national and international artists who inhabit the liminal space between science, art, and speculation: Mercedes Azpilicueta, Vicente Blanco, Paula Bruna, Andrea Canepa, Regina de Miguel, Antía Iglesias, Javier Martín, Eduardo Outeiro, Bollo Pierre “Tadios,” Iréné Nguea and ŋgam, Ce Quimera, Tomás Saraceno, and Xoán Xil López. The project asserts that only by telling stories differently can we see in other ways, presenting art itself as a laboratory of futures.

The exhibition can be visited until February 28, 2026, Monday to Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., in the Salón Artesonado of the Colexio de Fonseca. The work displayed in the Sancristía of the Colexio de Fonseca can be visited Monday to Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.