United Visual Artists (Matt Clark)
Beyond the Façade
JANUARY 31-MAY 17, 2026, CASA BATLLÓ, BARCELONA
+ABOUT
Beyond the Façade is the inaugural exhibition of Casa Batlló Contemporary, created by United Visual Artists (UVA), where the universe of their work for Casa Batlló Mapping transcends the façade and expands into the building's interior in an immersive experience.
+PROJECT
Presented between January 31 and May 17, 2026, at Casa Batlló Contemporary, Beyond the Façade inaugurated this new exhibition space as a contemporary laboratory located on the second floor of Casa Batlló.
The exhibition establishes a direct dialogue with the Hidden Order mapping presented by UVA on the facade of Casa Batlló, extending the narrative from the exterior to the interior of the building and creating a journey through darkness, light, and perception.
Through audiovisual installations, kinetic sculptures—such as their celebrated Seven Suns—and spatial compositions, UVA translates Gaudí’s architecture into a living system where patterns, cycles, and relationships between chaos and order emerge.
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—Gaudí once said that the straight line belongs to man and the curve to God. He believed that nature is governed by deeper geometric principles. As an artist, I have always been drawn to the hidden systems beneath the surface: those structures that silently shape the world around us.
MATT CLARK
+MEET THE ARTIST
United Visual Artists
Reality and perception as a source of experimentation
United Visual Artists (UVA) is a London-based studio founded and directed by British artist Matt Clark since 2003. Their practice integrates new technologies with traditional media such as sculpture, performance, and site-specific installations, resulting in works understood more as events in time rather than material objects, where light, sound, and movement unfold experientially.
Drawing inspiration from sources ranging from ancient philosophy to theoretical science, United Visual Artists explores the cultural frameworks and natural phenomena that shape our perception and cognition. Their projects investigate how we experience reality, manipulating perception and revealing the relative nature of our experiences.
United Visual Artists' work has been commissioned and presented by internationally renowned institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts, the Serpentine Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Barbican, the Manchester International Festival, and the Sydney Biennale, among others.
Their work is part of collections such as the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and MONA, and it evolves through an intense collaborative practice with artists, choreographers, scientists, musicians (like Massive Attack or James Blake), and creators from various disciplines, a philosophy that was especially reflected in their retrospective exhibition "UVA: Synchronicity" (2023).
+CREDITS
Matt Clark
Concept and Direction
Daniel J. Thibaut
Music Composer
Fukiko Takase
Coreography and Dance
Jon Skerritt
Design and Programming
Adam Heslop
Design and Programming
Alyssa Mello
MOCAP Technician
Chris Cornish
3D Scanning
Vincent de Belleval Productions
Kinetic Sculptures
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