Espacio Mínimo presents the new exhibition by Manu Muniategiandikoetxea, the eighth collaboration between the artist and the gallery, in which he continues his research on structure, material and error as forms of plastic thought.

The exhibition is the result of two years of work developed between residencies at Tabakalera (San Sebastián) and the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. In the first case, the artist’s contact with industrial laser-cutting waste led him to discover in the tramas (patterns)—fragments, scraps, gaps—a new formal and conceptual exploration of his work. In Rome, the encounter with the mosaics of the tessellated floors of the Ostia Antica archaeological site became a point of convergence between ancient geometry and contemporary remains. Eroded matter and age-old form, technical error and mathematical perfection. This gave rise to a new iconographic repertoire of simple geometries.

The title, taken and distorted from a Mikel Laboa song (Nao é você), introduces the core of the project through language: dislocation. The phrase, written simultaneously in Portuguese, Basque, and Spanish, is “wrong” in all of them. This deliberate error opens a semantic fissure that Muniategiandikoetxea transfers to the realm of sculpture and painting: constructing, breaking down, and recomposing the geometric structures that shape his practice.

In Nao es tu, ez da zu, no es tu, the artist proposes an archaeology of error: drawings, perforated structures, and pieces in iron or wood that function as negatives, traces, or remnants of a process. The works do not seek stability but rather occupy a point of uncertainty: what remains when the system breaks down. An approach to geometry not as a closed system, but as an open field of possibilities, the result of this dialogue between what breaks and what remains. Patterns, errors, and found geometries.