iPO 2025: LABOR-atorium results !

19.03.2025

For LAB-oratorium : LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, ES) and iMAL are teaming up to offer the opportunity of artistic research residencies to their respective communities !

We are pleased to announce the first projects selected for this year’s edition of our iMAL Projects Office residencies.

Hannah Mevis
Alba Matilla

The jury was composed of iMAL and LABoral teams

Congratulations to both of you! We're looking forward to work with you.

For our research residency in collaboration with LABoral, the jury has unanimously agreed to choose Alba Matilla's project 'Alphabets of Destruction’ : "an installation project in development that narrates the action of a small cloud that wanders through a ghost virtual world, made up
of industrial environments that have recently been demolished or are in the process of being destroyed".

iMAL's team pointed the project's link with Belgian context and its local actors. 'Alphabets of Destruction' maintains a critical and creative connection with technology and this residency appeared as a natural step in the artist's career.

The residency will take place in iMAL.

For our second research residency in collaboration with LABoral, the jury has unanimously agreed to choose Hannah Mevis's project and her proposal for «a performative and research-based exploration of lavaderos as spaces of feminist resistance and communal knowledge-sharing».

The jury – comprising iMAL and LABoral team members – highlighted that this project is anchored in the Asturian context and will provide an external view on heritage. In addition, the jury was interested on the potential of involving local activist communities.

The residency will place in LABoral (Gijón, SP).

Credit picture of Alba Matilla : IDC for Matadero 2024
Credit picture of Hannah Mevis : Joas Strecker