Muros de Nalón
09/03/2026 16:30
Visual Arts
Muros de Nalón
From March 9 to April 9, 2026
Multiple Services Building
33138 Muros de Nalón
T: 985 583 030 / 985 583 003
A project by Tania Blanco.
Fe is an extension of the Fierro project. In this case, a new series of works are contemplated that investigate the materials of the periphery of the Asturian metal industry. Specifically, the most industrialized port areas, such as the Musel of Gijón, the Avilés estuary, as well as the entire intermediate industrial area between the two cities and the Arcelor Mittal Sotiello refractory warehouse. Places of interest due to the specific type of residue that exists in their surroundings: iron / iron. The artist is interested in this material because it is a metallic chemical element that, in addition to being a basic raw material for industrial development, is present in the blood of mammals. It is the mineral that gives blood its red color, as evidenced by its etymology: from Greek hema = blood tita = mineral (blood stone). In Asturias, the extraction and processing of this chemical element (the most abundant on Earth and the most used in industry) is responsible for the existence of a “hyper-industrialized artery” that drastically modifies the landscape of the area since more than 70 years ago, between the Arcelor Mittal sites of Avilés and Gijón.
In this case, the artist is interested in the oxide that escapes from the industry and that stains the landscape of the surroundings red. Tania’s gaze conceives this iron as a plastic element, as a dye, an element that coexists with the natural landscape, of green and red contrasts. Retaking a constant theme in her work, the artist is also interested in the small oxidized treasures that we can find in these areas and that evidence the entry into a new era, the Anthropocene, which is consolidated and becomes visible in these places where the line between natural and industrial space begins to blur.