A wreck is the vestige of a shipwreck resting on the seabed. Nuria Mora creates her own from multiple fragments of recovered and new pieces, intertwined; swarms of inert remains and brilliant findings; entities subject to constant transformation and change, much like family history itself.

«Había en el fondo del mar» (There was at the bottom of the sea) is an intervention specifically conceived for Casal Solleric. It colonizes various locations to transform the building into a submerged stage – a framework in which to discover treasures that establish links with the architecture, recognizable elements of the city and its history, as well as with its closest and most evident surroundings: the maritime zone. Simultaneously, these pieces appeal directly to the delight of the senses in their most theatrical and baroque dimension. The project’s title is the artist’s tribute to the homonymous poem written in 1931 by Luis Cernuda.

The three site-specific interventions – one, focused on the stately home’s inner courtyard and the other two on its facade (in the loggia or balcony and the urban display window, known as the showcase) – articulate the architectural space as a unique and colorful underwater medium to which the artist transports us to reveal an imagined aquatic floor and what lies within. Some wrecks contain precious cargo; historically, their value is immense as they function as time capsules. The ensemble of installations alludes to the idea of the sea as both present and memory, and to the wreck as a kind of family genealogy.

Nuria Mora’s project has also succeeded in bringing together, within this personal setting of oceanic references, the architecture of the Casal with the Paseo del Born, through a collaboration with Gerreria Pere Coll from Pòrtol. It has done so by connecting the city with the sea through the idea of the wreck, precisely this year when the recovery of the Ses Fontanelles wreck, in the Bay of Palma, has begun,- considered one of the most significant underwater discoveries in the Mediterranean.

Nuria Mora Moreno (Madrid, 1974) studied Interior Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. She began her artistic career in the late 1990s, focusing on illegal street interventions that fused space, controversy, and form. Her aesthetic emerges from geometric abstraction and natural metamorphoses, transcending simple clandestine intervention to communicate on a more universal level. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, centers, and international museums such as the Tate Modern in London, the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Matadero and La Casa Encendida (both in Madrid), Le Pilori in Niort, the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Johannesburg. Her latest project, Cantarella, was inaugurated at the Sala del Foro Romano of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan in early April 2026.

Nuria Mora. Había en el fondo del mar