Children's workshop: Crocodiles, triangles, horns and magicians with artist María Jerez

María Jerez invites us to dive into a world of fabrics, shapes, objects and textures inspired by Leonora Carrington’s poetic, transformative imagination. Through play, dressing up and metamorphosis, bodies become hybrid figures in which the boundaries between human, animal and fantastical blur: an arm can become a horn, a hand a loaf of bread, or a head a triangle.

The activity encourages new ways of looking and imagining. Everyday things take on unexpected meanings, and each transformation opens the door to our own stories, full of creatures, dreams and possible worlds. Rather than looking for answers, it invites participants to experiment, invent and be surprised by what happens when bodies, objects and imagination meet.. 

In this space for exploration, the body becomes a creative tool and everyday materials spark stories, images and emotions. It’s an invitation to inhabit the impossible and discover that when anything can be transformed, so can our way of imagining the world.

María Jerez 

María Jerez’s work sits between choreography, film and the visual arts. For more than two decades, she has developed projects that investigate the relationship between the work, the space, and the audience, creating experiences that challenge how we usually perceive reality.

Her projects create situations in which the boundaries between human and non-human, organic and artificial, or animate and inanimate become blurred, inviting us to explore other ways of perceiving and knowing. Her work has been presented in leading venues in Spain and internationally and is part of the CA2M collection. Alongside this, she is very active in teaching and learning programmes at cultural institutions and in arts education.

This activity is a chance to get closer to contemporary creative processes alongside an artist who sees play, imagination and encounter as tools for discovery and learning.

Duration: 45 minutes.

Capacity: 25 people.

Audience: Family. Each child must be accompanied by an adult, with a maximum of two children per adult.