Carlota Santamaría is a participatory installation artist and experiential designer. Her practice examines the relationship between inner experience and the world we inhabit.

She creates authored experiential systems that bring sculptural environments, sound, objects, and collective actions into dialogue. Participants’ gestures and decisions shape how the work unfolds, giving questions about how we perceive, think, and relate a material and social form that can be inhabited and questioned.

Drawing on sustained investigations into ritual and inner experience, and more than two decades of design and creative direction, Santamaría composes situations in which participants’ contributions become the work’s material, structure, and meaning. Her installations invite us to examine how the realities we take for granted are rehearsed and sustained through our own participation.

Her work has been presented at the New Museum in New York, Palais Galliera in Paris, MoMu in Antwerp, and CCCB and CaixaForum in Barcelona, among others.

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Playing around with watercolors for an upcoming workshop at WMNspace

New Workshop

Mayth 11, 2017
1 min collage. Small test for an upcoming workshop I’ll host.

1 min. Collage

Mayth 5, 2017
Making off ✂️ new secret project coming up … tic tac tic….

Secret project coming up

Marchth 17, 2015
Happy international women’s day to all my beloved Riot GRRRLS

Riot Grrrl

Marchth 8, 2015
I’ve become an origami ( 折り紙 ) Jedi… New film coming very soon! with our new adventure Nomad Studio

Origami stopmotion branding film

Februaryst 21, 2015
Secret New Project coming up! with Lucas Borras for HP in New York

Secret Project with HP coming up

Octoberth 26, 2014
In the making, knot after knot, shibori and indigo. Personal project for Lucas Borras.

Personal project coming soon

Septemberth 20, 2014
Really excited my second film releases today, a co-directed work with Lucas Borras for Storefront for Art and Architecture co-directed.

WorldWide Storefront 2014 Release

Augustth 26, 2014
Super excited was quoted on Nowness today together with Jonathan schofield interview by Joseph Delaney, about his work on Odiseo vol.4 Boy meets girl.

Quoted on Nowness

Augustth 17, 2014
Jonathan Schofield’s Boy meets Girl ( variations ) from Odiseo vol.4 we’ll be feature on NOWNESS this weekend.

Soon in Nowness

Augustth 14, 2014
New project coming up for Storefront for Art and Architecture NY is coming up soon. Now, in the last stages creating orginal music with Hiperpotamus.

Soon new Project for Storefront NY

Julyth 19, 2014
Odiseo vol.4 it’s here. So much emotions encase in such a small book. Thanks Jonathan Schofield for our third cover! It portraits our new direction to perfection! couldn’t be happier.

Odiseo vol. 4 Release

Julyrd 3, 2014
Odiseo vol.3 is Sold out now at Folch Studio’s web. Still available at selected bookstores and stores.

Odiseo vol.3 Sold out

Mayth 28, 2014
A chat on erotica and Odiseo at Chill Laus Barcelona. The team of 5 at the same time 4 from Barcelona on the chairs and me on the screen from LA.

Chill Laus with Odiseo

Mayth 7, 2014
During my stay in LA I visit the Art Book Fair, it was a fabulous surprise to find out that so many people know about Odiseo. I met great photographers and editors and found really interesting projects. Maybe some really good collaboration will appear at Odiseo’s pages from this short but intense day.

LA Art Book Fair

Februaryst 1, 2014
Coming as far as Stockholm, New York and Barcelona, Odiseo’s team reunited for the presentation of our vol.2 at Do you read me?! in Berlin this last 13th of December. A talk about our take on eroticism and the editorial line we are following. Hosted by the welcoming Jessica and Mark.

Odiseo at Do You Read Me?!

Decemberth 13, 2013

WorldWide Storefront 2014

Storefront for Art and Architecture

Eva Franch commissioned this short film teaser to promote the first worldwide event organize by Storefront for Art & Architecture. The briefing was clear: promote artistic creation that will happen simultaneous in different parts of the world.. So we had to transmit the idea that during the event anything can happen, anywhere, simultaneously. I co-directed this piece with the mix-media director Lucas Borras. We focus in short sketches that will appeal to the surreal, and the subconscious. We try to undress the scenes from cultural local references, but at the same time integrate elements from opposite poles. Therefore it really didn’t matter where are you, you’ll perceived the vibe of the event. Reaching a wide audience.

Teaser for WorldWide Storefront 2014
A new initiative to provide a simultaneous, multi-locus of alternative spaces around the globe and a digital platform for the expression and exchange of latent desires within contemporary art and architecture practices.

Directed by Carlota Santamaría & Lucas Borrás
Commissioned by Eva Franch & Carlos Mínguez from Storefront for Art and Architecture NY
Music by Jorge Ramirez-Escudero

Sim/Stim with Zeitguised