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When Miguel Tinoco was a child, he loved climbing trees, and he still does today. Reading inspired him to create his artistic project. ‘My proposal was born from a very simple idea. While reading Italo Calvino’s book The Baron in the Trees, about a boy who decides to live in trees and never come down again, I wondered if I could climb trees to paint.’ (Video)

With that idea in mind, he designed his own briefcase so he could work comfortably in the treetops. Up there, alone and undisturbed, he paints small-format pictures and also uses his analogue camera to photograph the sun through the leaves. These photographs serve as models for his large-format paintings. He also ventures into mural painting with an oak tree from his native Extremadura which presides over the Goerlich-Ferreres room at the .

Secret revealed

Mar Cortés Valencia has turned her grandmother's secret into art in Palabra persuasiva (Persuasive Word). ‘This project I have developed is the result of the research I have been doing with my grandmother, who was a sex worker 40 years ago. It is a reconstruction of her memory because she never told her story.’

She has protected the 300-page transcription of their conversation with kisses and the time it took her grandmother to drink a calming glass of water determined the length of the video call with Colombia. The artist wanted to convey how text, the written and spoken word, can be seductive and persuasive.

The project also includes photographs of the places where her grandmother worked, which are now shops. A confessional that seeks forgiveness and visitors must kneel, and a picture of the supposed penance. This project has helped Mar Cortés to remove many stigmas and prejudices about prostitution.

Ten selected projects

These are just two of the ten projects that make up the "Pam! Pam! 25" exhibition, which returns to the Centre del Carme for its eleventh edition. The exhibition is completed by Escribiremos poemas sobre los suelos ácidos (We will write poems on acidic soils) by Alejandro Vázquez Tomé, Dicho y Hecho (Said and Done) by Laupe, Línea y plano sin el punto (Line and plane without the point) by Estefanía Serrano Soriano, Reproducción autodigestiva (Self-digestive reproduction) by Nicolás Gay Ramón, Las entrañas eran magnéticas (The entrails were magnetic) by Azul Macas Moreno, Puc fer-ho tot/Puc ser-ho tot (I can do it all/I can be it all) by Meritxell Simó Redón, Terminally online by Kanno x Ferran Buj, and Made by love by Carmen Jaras.

This exhibition showcases the winning works from "PAM! 24's" artistic and multimedia projects, selected by a jury made up of figures from the Valencian art and culture world. The jury selects proposals from students of the Master's Degree in Artistic Production and the Master's Degree in Visual Arts and Multimedia at the Universitat Politècnica de València.

The curators of this exhibition are Laura Silvestre García and José Luis Clemente. Laura Silvestre explains the importance of PAM! PAM! as a driving force that helps ‘artists take off towards professionalisation’. José Luis Clemente highlights the importance of returning and ‘confronting the architecture, rich in symbolism, of this space’, where Joaquín Sorolla, for example, studied when the Centre del Carme housed the School of Fine Arts, the seed of the Faculty of Fine Arts before it moved to the campus of the Universitat Politècnica de València.

You can visit the exhibition until 11 January 2026, in the Goerlich-Ferreres room at the Centre del Carme.

Photograph: Vicente Lara Sáez

Video: Amparo Berbegal Juan

Text: Carmen Revillo Rubio

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