Sorondo Projects Barcelona

For Liste 2026 we propose a site specific dialogue between Nikolay Morgunov and María Elena Pombo featuring inked cotton paintings, cement sculptures, fossil rubbings on paper and a stromatolite specimen. This project creates a shared field of material migration where geological displacement meets procedural erosion. Morgunov’s precise grids collide with spontaneous coal gestures and resin surfaces that soften the tension between control and abandonment. Pombo’s rubbings trace tectonic drift while carrying ancient tropical fossils into present time. Together their practices resonate between origin and trace, absence and presence, allowing persistent form to emerge as everything else shifts in motion.

María-Elena Pombo (b. 1988) is a Venezuelan artist based in NYC. Her work is part of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been shown internationally at MoMA PS1 (NYC), Sommerset House (London), and more. She is profesor at Parsons School of Design. She works through open-ended interconnected projects that untangle notions of territory.

Nikolay Morgunov (b. 1992, Moscow) is a Barcelona-based artist whose work combines strict grid structures with seemingly accidental graphic layers. He treats his process as a game between rules and intuition, evoking monumentality through monochrome rhythm and open-ended forms.