Survival Strategies: Presentation and Workshop with Celina Eceiza (ARG)
The fourth part of Survival Strategies, the winter art workshop series of the Space of Opportunity, is centred around the concept of the ‘social fabric.’ The third and final occasion of this year’s eries is led by artist 𝓒𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓪 𝓔𝓬𝓮𝓲𝔃𝓪 (𝓐𝓡𝓖).
Schedule
March 27, 2026, 18.00 – 19.30 Presentation by Celina Eceiza
March 28, 2026, 11.00 – 17.00 Workshop with Celina Eceiza
“Drawing: the oldest, the most modern, the most difficult, and the cheapest means of expression in the world.”*
This statement, articulated in 1979 by América Sanchez (Buenos Aires, 1939) and Norberto Chaves (Buenos Aires, 1942 – Barcelona, 2024)—two Argentine designers, educators, and drawing enthusiasts living in Barcelona, who that same year wrote Promoción internacional para el estudio y la práctica autodidacta del dibujo (International Promotion for the Study and Self-Taught Practice of Drawing)—provides the conceptual framework for this workshop.
Is it possible to identify a practice shared by all human beings? While not universally cultivated, drawing is arguably one of the most widely experienced forms of expression. At some point, most people have used a pencil to sketch, trace, or doodle in order to communicate something that exceeded the limits of language.
Over time, drawing often becomes associated with skill, talent, or specialization, leading many to abandon it. This workshop challenges that assumption. It begins from the premise that drawing is not a matter of expertise but of gesture: a fundamental human capacity grounded in the movement of the hand.
No prior experience is required. We will approach drawing from its most elementary dimension — as a physical act that produces marks in space. By foregrounding gesture over representation, the workshop seeks to reposition drawing as a shared and accessible practice.
Participants will collectively construct a temporary textile architecture that functions both as environment and medium. The space itself will become the surface for inscription. Windows and doors will be outlined, baseboards will host small-scale interventions, and the soft walls will receive marks that extend according to the reach and scale of the body. Through these actions, drawing will operate not only as image-making but as spatial articulation.
Working collectively also introduces critical questions: Where does one gesture end and another begin? How is authorship negotiated on a shared surface? What forms of responsibility emerge when drawing becomes a relational act?
Rather than conceiving drawing as imitation or reproduction, this workshop proposes it as a practice through which shared space is constructed and negotiated. The site of the workshop, located in direct contact with the street, further expands this inquiry. It invites consideration of permeability between interior and exterior, and raises the possibility of extending the drawing beyond the confines of the workshop space, engaging passersby as potential participants.
In this sense, drawing is approached not merely as a technique, but as a collective practice that redefines space, authorship, and participation.
*https://clubdeldibujo.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/01-CdD-Sanchez-Chaves.pdf
For a detailed description, visit our site: https://lehetosegektere.hu/en/programok/survival-strategies-iv-subversive-stitch/
Celina Eceiza is an artist and writer, who lives and works in Buenos Aires. In her installations, created mainly from hand-made textiles, space is conceived as a metabolic organ, capable of absorbing and processing different physical and psychological states, as well as various practices, beliefs, desires, and rituals. In the words of curator Jimena Ferreiro: „Celina Eceiza’s installations invite you to partake in pleasant, porous and expansive environments. Constructed as if they were states of mind, these spaces yearn to be experienced by a body that forgets its rational nature and gives way to the pure will of sensitive knowledge. This intimate and, at the same time, collective experience displays its political power by presenting art as a living form that must be nurtured in order to reveal new possible links between humans.”
‼️ Details:
The program consists of the artist’s Friday evening presentation (public and free) and a Saturday workshop (registration required, participation fee applies).
One workshop: 10.000 Ft
For students: 5.000 Ft/workshop
👉 Registration: https://forms.gle/sVsEf4t4tYfFjE8z8
Application deadline for the second session: February 23, 2026 (midnight)
If paying the fee is a challenge for you but you would still like to participate, please contact us at [email protected].
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