Sign up for
our newsletter
About
ANTOXANA is a project conceived as a space for encounter between local residents, creators and visitors around culture.
It is located in Corao Castiellu, a rural settlement belonging to the municipality of Cangas de Onís (Asturias), in the surroundings of the Picos de Europa.
The project begins its public activity in 2026 and is promoted by Cañada de los Bojes, Sociedad de Beneficio e Interés Común, SL.
Programme
Gorka Postigo
You'll Never Meet My New Friends
20 Jun. → 13 Sept. 2026
Tuesday to Saturday
11am - 2pm
Free entry
Appointment visits
Tuesday to Saturday, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, by appointment with at least 3 days' notice.
Official Section
This project emerges from an intimate experience of loss and transformation, unfolding as a visual journey that connects grief, identity, and community. Through a series of portraits taken in cities such as Paris, London, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Abidjan, Gorka Postigo (Madrid, 1978) constructs an emotional map in which individual stories enter into dialogue, shaped by vulnerability, resilience, and a shared desire for connection.
Moving away from a traditional documentary approach, the exhibition proposes a space of encounter. The images do not seek to define identities, but rather to open a shared ground where gestures, gazes, and presences generate new forms of relation. In this sense, the project unfolds as a reflection on chosen family, queer beauty, and the possibility of self-reinvention beyond inherited models. It also offers a critical reconsideration of structures of masculinity and belonging, while affirming photography as a powerful tool for community-making.
Artist in residence 2026
Fabiola Cedillo
20 Jun. → 15 Sept. 2026
Tuesday to Saturday
11am - 2pm
Free entry
Studio visits
Tuesday to Saturday, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, by appointment with at least 3 days' notice.
Fabiola Cedillo (Ecuador) is a visual artist, documentary photographer, and mediator. Over the past decade, she has developed a practice that moves between photography, performance, and artistic research. Her projects have addressed themes such as technology and human reproduction, illegal international adoptions, neurodivergence, and the traps of capitalism in our vulnerable lives. She currently lives between Ecuador and Spain. Her arrival in Asturias opens a new line of research centred on the experience of inhabiting an unfamiliar landscape through a gaze shaped by the memory of the Andes, the Amazon, colonisation, and mestizaje.
During her residency at Antoxana, she will develop an expanded photographic essay that begins with a slow approach to the surroundings of Corao. Through daily walks, analogue photography, performative self-portraiture, and the collection of natural materials found in the landscape, she will explore how territory can cease to be a backdrop and become an active interlocutor.
Space
ANTOXANA is developed at Casa de Cueto, an 18th-century manor house listed for its historical and artistic interest, located in Corao Castiellu, in the surroundings of the Picos de Europa.
The rehabilitation, carried out by Xaime Diz and Susana Granizo of the XDS studio, rescues the building from its state of ruin to adapt it to its new use, thereby contributing to the enhancement of Asturias' cultural heritage.
The intervention combines vernacular architecture techniques and restoration and conservation work with contemporary interventions. The new does not imitate the old, nor does it displace it: it accompanies it and makes it legible in accordance with the principles of the Venice Charter.
The work was carried out entirely by local professionals and craftspeople, prioritising locally sourced materials and low-impact construction solutions. Improvements to the thermal envelope and the incorporation of high-efficiency systems significantly reduce the building's energy consumption and carbon footprint.
ANTOXANA is conceived as a place of encounter between culture, territory and community, but also between memory and the present. From this intention, the intervention understands materiality, sustainability and programmatic flexibility as tools to extend the life of the building without erasing its identity.
Project co-financed by the European Union through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Principality of Asturias, within the framework of the LEADER Measure M19.2 of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020.
LEADER
Community-led local development
