Installation view, Education Lab, ‘Play your Part,’ Hauser & Wirth Menorca, 2025. Photo: Damian Griffiths
Conceived as a site-specific response to Mika Rottenberg and Cindy Sherman’s exhibitions, and inspired by the concept of ‘plasticity of identity,’ ‘Play Your Part ‘is a performative and participatory installation that invites the audience into an immersive, symbolic journey guided by audio narration. Visitors become active participants, engaging both intellectually and physically with the theme of identity through a carefully choreographed experience.
The space reimagines the role of the audience as co-creators of meaning. By blending instruction, freedom, and symbolic play, the project invites participants to reflect, take risks, and step beyond the controlled, distanced behavior often associated with gallery visits.
The project was designed and developed by Irene Pascual, artist, researcher, and lecturer at ESADIB, whose interdisciplinary work blends performance, pedagogy, and visual art, with a strong focus on identity, embodiment, and collective participation. For the sound composition, Pascual collaborated with composer and producer Alessandro Bortolozzi, whose original audio enhances the immersive experience of the installation.
The Education Lab is part of Hauser & Wirth’s commitment to inclusive learning programs that instigate a dialogue between art, artists and diverse audiences. Located at our galleries in Menorca, Somerset and Downtown Los Angeles, as well as at Chillida Leku, each Education Lab is a collaboration with a local community group, school or university.
Installation view, Education Lab, ‘Play your Part,’ Hauser & Wirth Menorca, 2025. Photo: Damian Griffiths
Installation view, Education Lab, ‘Play your Part,’ Hauser & Wirth Menorca, 2025. Photo: Damian Griffiths
About ‘Mika Rottenberg. Vibrant Matter’
Mika Rottenberg’s first solo exhibition in Spain features celebrated video installations, ‘Cosmic Generator’ (2017) and ‘Spaghetti Blockchain’ (2019), alongside her latest ‘Lampshares’ (2024 – 2025) carved from bittersweet vines and reclaimed plastic. For decades, Rottenberg has addressed our relationship with capitalist systems of production and labor, realising a labyrinth of disparate worlds through seductive multidimensional works. She draws attention to the absurdity of our global situation; harnessing imagery that’s simultaneously pleasurable and troubling, blurring facts with fiction, the natural from the artificial.
About ‘Cindy Sherman. The Women’
For her first solo exhibition in Spain in over two decades, ‘Cindy Sherman. The Women’ features a selection of the artist’s most iconic bodies of work, dating from the 1970s to 2010s, and emphasising how Sherman revolutionized the role of the camera in artistic practice. The exhibition will include the groundbreaking ‘Untitled Films Stills’ (1977 – 1980), through which Sherman came to widespread notoriety as one of the ‘Pictures Generation’, artists whose work responded to the age of mass media and celebrity. This pivotal series is juxtaposed with Sherman’s large-format portrayals of film stars, starlets, society women and fashionistas, from various series made over subsequent decades, addressing the layered presentation and public perception of femininity.
About Irene Pascual
Irene Pascual holds a degree in Art History from the University of Girona and in Scenography from the Theatre Institute of Barcelona. She completed her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste), where she studied for two years with scenographer Harmut Meyer and worked in the scenography departments of the Volksbühne and Maxim Gorki theaters. She has collaborated with various artists and collectives, including stage directors Gerd Wameling, Sebastian Mauksch (Volksbühne P14), Irene Mattioni, and Manuela Naso; dancers Minako Seki, Yuko Kasseki, and Andrea Cruz; performance artists Christian Falsnaes and Grace Kim; and photographer Patrick Morarescu. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Spain, Germany, England, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Poland, Taiwan, Cameroon, Estonia, Portugal, Bulgaria, and the Philippines. She is currently working as a professor at the Higher School of Dramatic Art of the Balearic Islands (ESADIB), and combines her artistic practice with cultural mediation, as part of a doctoral research project on the intersection between Performance and Cultural Mediation.
Installation view, Education Lab, ‘Play your Part,’ Hauser & Wirth Menorca, 2025. Photo: Damian Griffiths
The Education Lab at Hauser & Wirth Menorca accompanies the exhibition ‘Mika Rottenberg. Vibrant Matter,’ on view from 10 May 2025, and ‘Cindy Sherman. The Women,’ on view from 23 June. Plan your visit here.
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