Trena, by the artist Laia Estruch (Barcelona, 1981), is a very large sculpture that might bring to mind the museum building’s circulatory system. A performative structure that invites you to be part of its body. You have to enter and pass through it as if you were the Museum’s bloodstream, to fully experience it.

The main idea of Trena is that it is a habitable space, for the body and the voice; the people who pass through it activate the sculpture. Once in the circuit, they can be listened to, seen and passed through constantly by the sound that is generated inside and outside of the piece.

Trena transforms the space around it, the Oval Hall, and it is activated by physical and sound interaction. With it, the artist experiments and reflects on the limits of public and private spaces, their physical structures and the role they play in everyday life.

Between sculpture and performance, Laia Estruch’s work immerses itself in the language of the body and the voice to find new ways of working with speaking and listening. The artist designs structures conceived as laboratories open to the public, places for experimentation with sound that take the body and the word into the sphere of action.

Trena is activated every hour on the hour with a piece of music lasting 2 minutes 10 seconds produced in collaboration with Xavi Lloses