“De Espiral en Espiral” is the new performance by visual artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, commissioned by TBA21 and co-produced by BoCA, as part of the artist’s solo exhibition at Museo Reina Sofia. The piece continues his work dismantling hegemonic narratives, positioning performance as a site of tension between official history and outsider practices.

Taking as its starting point the deck of cards — a colonial artifact strictly regulated by the Spanish Crown as a means of economic and symbolic control — Ramírez-Figueroa follows a winding path between imposition and deviation, power and witchcraft. In the hands of the women in his family, these same cards, once an accessory of entertainment and imperial earnings, become fortune telling tools, instruments for survival and the transmission of occult knowledge.

“De Espiral en Espiral” invokes this deviation as a form of resistance: through an intimate gesture, the imperial logic is subverted. The performance transforms the stage into a space where the political and the emotional interweave, and where the artist’s body becomes a medium between temporalities, geographies and languages.

In a time when the colonial past continues to echo, “De Espiral en Espiral” suggests an attentive reading of its scars — not as a lifeless archive, but as a living spiral that insists on reappearing.