HeyHuman 2024 residency

A journey through

exhibited at

Carrer de Lluçà, 25 Barcelona

18:00 OCTOBER 26TH, 2024

At the heart of any meaningful conversation lies the idea of exchange—a fluid, evolving dialogue that shapes and reshapes understanding. Over the past two months, this dialogue has unfolded with four artists, navigating the intricate layers of sharing spaces within a shared space. The digital realm, inherently collective, became both canvas and context—a terrain where ideas, gestures, and languages converged.

This collaboration embraced new data languages as a framework for interaction—not as rigid tools, but as an excuse to deepen relationality. The conversation tangled data with landscapes, crafts, gestural nuances, and intimate interactions. What emerged was a medley of diverse projects unified by a shared desire to humanize the digital medium. Together, these efforts translated its cold abstractions into myths, manifestos, guided meditations, and even love letters, each brimming with the warmth of embodied presence.

This experiment, however, was never solely about the digital. It challenged us to think beyond, to cultivate bodily awareness within a shared virtual space. If it needed a new name, "Sediments" feels apt—a metaphor for the layers of meaning that accumulate in the riverbed of collective effort. These sediments transform the physical and conceptual space, enriching it with new information and possibilities.
Marta Handenawer, Curator of the Hey Human residency

The Meme (L) Language Study Group
Meme as a relational tool
Léa Cadieux
We could say I’m a hyper connected person

I spend in average 10 hours a day online;
My phone keeps me company
it helps me check up on messages I receive from loved ones;
I answer using emojis or short sentences,
but mostly adding a cascade of memes to the endless conversations

This could be the side effect of moving places,
globalisation of communication tools,
loneliness,
or longing for togetherness.

Regardless,
away from keyboard
I mostly exist in memories,
and online,
this memory is kept alive, and given many embodiements

The memes I send are a language form through which my relationships stay ignited
Meme are a way to get to know me;
what I like, what I don’t, how I would react to things
In other cases they say
«I miss you»
«I’m thinking about you»
«do you remember that time we (...)»
« this and it made me think of you»
«I wanted to take some news»
«how are you?».

Over the years,

as a show of love,

even the most tech resistant of my loved ones began to converse in memes.
And when I went (meme) silent for too long,
I would receive concerned messages from loved ones asking me if something was wrong

Memes are not just a side note in daily conversations,
but a real love language
through which relational data is constantly being exchanged
and bonds solidified through re-contextualisation
Dunes, reconstructed (a study)
Landscapes as storytelling tools
Augustina Lavickaitė
A strip of sandy terrain, at times only 400 meters wide, separates the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon. This sand houses myths, legends, and songs of longing and belonging within a desolate landscape—from towns buried under the dunes to meticulously planted forests designed to anchor the shifting sands.

The project deconstructs the Lithuanian seaside through its mediated forms and reassembles it from scratch—no rock or sand remains, only a shell, shaped by human intervention, perception, and mediation. Is a landscape defined by its physical form, or by the songs written about it, the myths told to explain it, and the maps drawn to claim it? Peeling back layers of symbolic intervention, we uncover not just a place, but a testament to the ways we shape and are shaped by the terrain.
- Project
- Instagram
- Linkedin
- E-mail
Finding Gustavo
Street View as a narrative engine
Jakub Fiala
Finding Gustavo is a web-based quest taking place in Google Street View. Somewhere in the still, psychedelic desert of northern Chile, the player sets off on a search for the unseen narrator's missing friend, discovering local sites of folk spirituality, the region's connections to space exploration and the effects of its destructive mining industry. With hand-crafted soundscapes, an original sound-track and an interactive world, the game turns Street View into an immersive storytelling engine.
- Project
- Portfolio
- E-mail
Materialized Digital Weaving Craft
Material and Format
Bérénice Gaça Courtin
Bérénice is creating a new dreamland, about Textile hackers, with a chapter based in Barcelona.

She continues the alphabet of places of Resistance made from personal archives into pictograms to generate one, which would represent different places in Barcelona.
- Instagram
- Website
- E-mail

Thank you to Marta, Self, Marta and the whole DDS crew for their support during the residency <3