Working Progress is a site-specific piece from the visual artist Xavi Muñoz. The installation represents a paradox where a building cement-mixer is decontextualised and becomes a festive, recreational feature that lights up a space and transforms it into a place of celebration. It is a new reflection from a creator who, according to the artist Juan Cabello Arribas, “is a delicate observer […] and each of his devices contain inside them the symbolic myths and rituals of a profession he spends his entire workday on: bringing visibility to the invisible”. His work stands out for being a formal relentless resolve of poetry and intimacy. Inspired by the essential registers of the human condition, his work has developed in a number of directions, while repeatedly looking for the symbolic space-object relationship — even the most conventional and anonymous, such as a cement mixer — and matter-language relationship. The inclusion of technology and light here is an unprecedented contribution to his artistic universe.

Xavi Muñoz’s notable exhibitions include: “Fabular un mundo diferente”, curated by Blanca de la Torre (Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Perú, 2021); “1000 Wünsche” (Essenheimer Kunstverein, 2021); “Nocturns” (Museu de Porreres, Mallorca, 2020); “Heaven” (L&B Gallery, Barcelona, 2019); “Universal Data” at the Biennial of Contemporary Art (MACAM, Lebanon, 2019); “Landscape” (L&B Gallery, Barcelona, 2016); “Coca-Cola Collection” (DA2, Salamanca, 2019); Galeria Raquel Ponce (Madrid, 2011), “Captura Lliure”, curated by Àlex Brahim (La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2009); “Paradise”, curated by Cecilia Lobel (Centre d’Art Cal Massó, Reus, 2009); “Sleepwalker” (Galeria Raquel Ponce, Madrid, 2009); “Dream Hunter”, curated by Alex Brahim (Addaya Centre d’Art Contemporani, Alaró, Mallorca, 2008); “La Lògica del Desig”, curated by Juanjo Fuentes (Sala Mauro Muriedas, Torrelavega, 2007), and “This I have wished to write to you”, curated by Juan Ramón Barbancho (Casa de las Conchas, Salamanca, 2006).