DONDE HABITO
L Contemporary is pleased to present Donde Habito, a new exhibition by artist Alba Dorta (b. 2000), running from January 9 to March 6, 2026. This showcase represents a continuation and deepening of Dorta’s ongoing exploration of intimacy, the home, and the construction of safe spaces.
The exhibition draws its title from the artist’s most recent self-portrait, which serves as the project’s conceptual anchor. This work offers a meditation on the spaces we create not only to house our bodies but to sustain our most vulnerable selves. In this sense, Donde Habito reflects on the home as an emotional and symbolic place, rather than a strictly physical oIn an era marked by displacement, precarity, and the erosion of traditional anchors of stability, Dorta’s practice reclaims the act of creating environments where it is simply possible to be. These are spaces where vulnerability is not understood as a weakness to be hidden, but as an essential component of identity and authentic existence.
The artist’s methodology focuses on portraying physical space as both subject and metaphor. Through meticulous attention to the environments she depicts, Dorta elevates the everyday—corners, thresholds, and the intimate enclosures of domestic life—into places charged with both personal and universal meaning. Her work features not only her own spaces but also those inhabited by her friends and family, expanding the notion of home into a shared, relational dimension. Her work oscillates between documentation and construction, posing the question of whether home is something found or something that must be continuously created.
The introspective gaze running through this body of work marks a shift toward deeper self-exploration. Rather than observing intimacy from a distance, Dorta situates herself within these spaces, making visible the constant negotiation between the self and the environment, between exposure and protection.