• The exhibition marks the second intervention in the Retorno series, the annual exhibition project curated by Óscar Manrique at the Neolith Living Gallery in Madrid.
  
  
• With this new work, Sergio Femar brings the material memory of Galicia to the forefront through reclaimed mussel raft wood and recovered fishing nets.

Neolith presented Relinga at its Neolith Living Gallery in Madrid, an intervention by Galician artist Sergio Femar as part of Retorno, the annual exhibition project curated by Óscar Manrique. Following the first exhibition in the series, featuring Día Muñoz, this new proposal continues to expand the dialogue between contemporary art, materiality, sustainability, and memory.

Sergio Femar’s exhibition is the second intervention in the Retorno series hosted at the Neolith Living Gallery in Madrid.

The opening event was attended by the artist, who shared the conceptual and material foundations of the work. Relinga is presented as a piece that connects with space and with Neolith’s philosophy, where material is understood beyond its role as a surface and becomes a vehicle for thought, origin, and transformation.

For this intervention, Sergio Femar draws on Galicia’s maritime heritage, its traditional boats, and its mussel rafts. The work is composed of wood reclaimed from mussel rafts and treated through artisanal restoration processes such as roughing and oiling, together with recovered fishing nets. Through these elements, Relinga builds a bridge between past and present, highlighting the ingenuity of Galician communities in making responsible use of natural resources.

The artist’s practice moves between painting, sculpture, and installation. His work approaches matter as a device to think about space, incorporating manual processes and traditional knowledge that engage with a contemporary sensibility. In Relinga, the wood and nets preserve the traces of their previous use and are transformed into a new symbolic structure, where craftsmanship, nature, and sculpture coexist.

With this second exhibition, Retorno once again transforms the central space of the Neolith Living Gallery in Madrid into a meeting point between disciplines, consolidating its evolution as a program that invites reflection on the relationship between material, landscape, community, and sustainability. A project in which art becomes a tool to rethink our relationship with the environment.

Through this initiative, Neolith reinforces its commitment to culture and to a vision of design connected to innovation, responsibility, and sustainable beauty.

Relinga can be visited at the Neolith Living Gallery in Madrid, at Calle de Padilla, 6.