SO MANY WORLDS IN THIS ONE | Marina Núñez

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SO MANY WORLDS IN THIS ONE
An exhibition by Marina Núñez

From October 11, 2025 to January 25, 2026
Central space and temporary exhibition halls.
Free admission.

An exhibition from the special 150th anniversary program and the Critical Visions program.
Co-organized by the National Museum of Anthropology and La Térmica Cultural (CIUDEN-MITECO).
Curator: Isabel Durán.

So Many Worlds in This One is a project of visual poetry and ethical reflection on the decisive influence of humankind on the sustainability and future of ecosystems in a globalized and profoundly anthropized planet. It offers a true sensorial and emotional immersion in the universe created in the latest works of one of the great artists of our time. A comprehensive and unique experience, revealing and transformative, it represents one of the major highlights of the MNA's 150th anniversary special program and the most appropriate artistic expression of the premises of one of the museum's axes of action and social commitment.

On this occasion, the MNA is partnering with La Térmica Cultural, a thermal power plant recycled as a cultural space in Ponferrada and linked to the Ciudad de la Energía Foundation (CIUDEN) and the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, to present Núñez's magnificent work, recently acquired as part of the MITECO collection of fine and visual arts. This work, "So Many Worlds in This One" (2025), which gives the exhibition its title, is a floor of nearly 300 60-cm-square tiles printed with the latest technologies that occupies the entire museum's light well. In it, the artist unfolds a visual universe of infinite richness, a fascinating "map" of the Earth, cultivated, wounded, throbbing, full of surprises and suggestions. This is a complex work, with a unitary composition that is nevertheless made up of dozens of smaller images that also have their own identity. It is a work that combines the meticulous work of visual creation—almost artisanal—with cutting-edge image generation tools (3D simulation software and artificial intelligence). The work contains many works within itself, and creates a world that contains many worlds.

Those who wish can spend hours wandering this infinite pavement, perhaps while listening to the cadences of the musical piece composed ad hoc by Luis de la Torre (which will be played according to the program of screenings announced at the entrance to the exhibition) and reading the narrative written by Isabel Durán, the exhibition's curator, to activate the collective consciousness in view of Núñez's vast mosaic. The three works complement each other, reinforce each other, and are symbiotic, although each then acts on different levels of perception, sensitivity, and thought.

And around this proposal, which acts as the gravitational axis of the exhibition, many other recent works by this unique visual storyteller unfold, in a variety of formats: video creations such as Inmersión (Immersion), Espejismo (Mirage), Desvanecimiento (Vanishing), and Origen, destino (Orgin, Destiny), always with music by her faithful Luis de la Torre; laser-cut glass as in Cosmos (Cosmos); and conventional digital prints as in Soñar (Dreaming) o que te sueñen (Dreaming or Letting You Dream) or ceramic prints as in Tierra (Land) and Viaje al centro de la Tierra (Journey to the Center of the Earth), which are also part of Núñez's latest explorations into the possibilities of implanting her images on the very "earth" from which the tiles are made. This Earth invites us to look at it with different eyes to imagine a more balanced world and a more sustainable future.