Sinstelación (2021) is a project by the Oviedo-born artist Juan Díaz-Faes made on the metallic conduits in the ventilation system. The black-on-yellow design featuring the artist’s hallmark patterns, which invade the entire surface, take on a texture of their own, which the artist says reminds him of salamanders. This is the first time he is working on this kind of support, which is complex not only because of the material but also because of its three-dimensionality and its location, which makes it hard to arrange and adapt the composition.

An artist and urban designer, Díaz-Faes was trained in Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca. He got his start in the world of magazines, advertising and comics. Since 2017, he has worked actively on walls in different places around the world, with interventions that combine visual humour with voluminous shapes in colourful compositions featuring a small number of figures.

The New York-based artist Andrea von Bujdoss, better known as Queen Andrea, is one of the most celebrated female graffiti artists in the United States. Trained in graphic design at the Parsons School of Design in New York, she has worked in this field for many magazines, as well as in advertising and fashion design. She currently combines her practice as a graffiti artist and muralist with her job as a designer, typesetter and fine artist in her studio.

Just like most of her murals, in this work, made in the building’s freight lift in 2021, Queen Andrea uses the slogan ‘Always Play’, an encouraging message based on one already displayed in a work by the artist that the Foundation acquired in 2020. Just like that previous work, this one comes in vibrant colours and encourages viewers to act and to enjoy the fun side of life.