Piramidón, Contemporary Art Center (Barcelona), founded in 1990, is a hybrid space between gallery and creation factory that integrates artistic production with its dissemination, exhibition, and commercialization. With 18 studios that have hosted more than 200 artists from 30 nationalities, Piramidón provides an ideal environment for the development of artistic practice, fostering interactions between creators, curators, collectors, and contemporary art professionals. It also annually awards several acquisition and residency prizes, both its own and those linked to international fairs, with the aim of supporting emerging and mid-career artists.

For this edition of SWAB, Piramidón presents Stratification and Landscape (2025) by Marco Noris, resident at the center since 2017. This project brings together several works created over the last seven years, all sharing a common focus on exploring the representation of landscape. As a whole, the works question the subjective gaze of the landscape, shifting from traditional horizontality to a verticality that offers an external and technological perspective, like that of a satellite or drone, which displaces the human presence within the territory. The different layers of the pieces allude to the stratification of time and space, serving as a transition between these two perspectives. Noris employs walking as a tool for aesthetic and reflective inquiry, which manifests in his work both visually and conceptually.