The installation AUTOPARK opens a temporal window in La [3] through the lens of Martín Vitaliti

The installation AUTOPARK, by Argentine and Barcelona-based artist Martín Vitaliti, transforms La [3] into a temporal fracture where past and present overlap. Drawing from a collection of original postcards intervened with reflections and lights from present-day Apolo, the work reconstructs the memory of the space before it became a club: an amusement park inaugurated in 1935. The piece activates a play of apparitions in which both eras coexist in a ghostly way, forming a window through which history is rewritten in the present tense.

The work establishes a visual dialogue between archive and experience, between what once was and what still lingers. Contemporary flashes break into the old images like a living layer, generating a tension between the documentary and the imagined. Each composition functions as a suspended scene, an echo that invites visitors to move through the space from a different perspective, sensing the invisible traces that still inhabit it.

Known for a practice that merges image and narration, Vitaliti works at the intersection of visual languages such as comics, graphic editing and the appropriation of everyday materials. Born in Buenos Aires in 1978 and currently based in Barcelona, his work explores how we construct and read images, activating latent narratives through minimal gestures. In AUTOPARK, this approach unfolds as a re-reading of the archive that transforms memory into a sensory experience.

Art Meets Apolo, a living bridge between art and clubbing
The installation is part of Art Meets Apolo, a multidisciplinary exhibition project that seeks to connect art and clubbing through the perspectives of Barcelona-based and resident artists. Previous contributors to the series include Pedro Torres, Mónica Rikić, Jordi Gispert Pi, Alba Rihe, Sejal Parekh, Milica Lukic, Miroslav Perković, Andrei Warren, Antoni Miralda, Anna Carreras and Oscar Zabala.

The project is developed in collaboration with LAB36 and Galeria Senda, building connections between two worlds that share audiences, working methods and experiences, with a shared goal: to strengthen and give visibility to local culture.