AFTERpoema
AFTERpoema (Buenos Aires – Santiago de Compostela)
AFTERpoema is a multidisciplinary gallery representing emerging artists who explore the intersection of visual arts with literary writing, essay, and documentary research.
Each work represents a universe of images that continues to unfold through the written word.
Our artists approach art through diverse and disruptive personal trajectories and aesthetics, developing projects that merge different practices and materialities, while engaging with poetry, dramaturgy, diaries, and essays.
We seek to explore new forms of representation and connection between artists, different ways of making art, and our relationship with nature, the landscape, and the other species that inhabit our planet.
Within this multiplicity of voices, recurring themes emerge, including the natural world, sustainability, archives and memory, myths and legends, contemporary utopias and dystopias, mysticism, contemporary spirituality, and esotericism.
Proposal
Clay Witches is an international collective of eight artists formed in 2024 during a residency at Can Serrat (Catalonia). Through ceramics, textile art, writing, and other collaborative practices, the collective explores the relationship between matter, territory, memory, and community. Their projects combine sculpture, performance, archive, and gastronomy, approaching art as a shared experience rather than an isolated object.
At Swab 2026, they present a selection of works emerging from collective actions carried out in Catalonia in 2025 as part of the gastronomic performance “El Banquete”, a communal Calçotada bringing together craft techniques, rituals, and forms of gathering to explore new ways of creating and inhabiting the mountain.
Clay Wicthes
Clay Witches is an international artistic collective comprising Sophie Béhal, Flor Dacal, Valentina Bobbo, Tara McGinn, Lu Martínez, Pola Amengual, Esra Nesipogullari, and Lala Lumi. Founded in 2024 during the Collective Creation Residency at Can Serrat (Catalonia), the group develops collaborative projects spanning ceramics, textile art, writing, performance, and archival practices.
Their practice explores matter as a space for encounter, bringing traditional techniques, memory, territory, and contemporary forms of collective creation into dialogue. Through art and gastronomy, the collective reflects on contemporary modes of production and consumption, reclaiming food not as an aesthetic fetish, but as an everyday act capable of fostering community, transmitting knowledge, and rethinking traditions and cultures.
