About Us

Vista Oral is a curatorial and research collective. We are interested in research and archives as spaces from which to activate new relationships between images, narratives and memories, and particularly in the intersections between popular culture and contemporary art. We bring together things that, due to certain cultural and class hierarchies, seem destined never to meet. We approach projects as processes of shared learning, usually working alongside artists to create situations in which documents, narratives and experiences can encounter one another, shift and generate new readings. Together with Eloi Gimeno, we co-directed the publishing project Folleto until 2019, and we are currently part of the international collective continent.

Vista Oral. We are Alicia Escobio and Maite Muñoz. 

Alicia Escobio is curator of Public Programmes at MACBA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona). She studied philosophy with a specialization in aesthetics and the theory of contemporary art. As an independent curator, she has developed much of her practice as a member of different collectives participating in developing exhibition, discursive and editorial projects. She has been a member of Leland Palmer with Laura Benítez and Lola Lasurt until 2016.

Maite Muñoz is an independent researcher and curator. She is an external advisor to the MACBA Archive, where she has worked for eight years, the last three as Archives Manager. She is a Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) member, an independent archive and programming space, and the Acid-Free Art Book Market. She also works for the YAXS Guatemala Foundation and Terranova Editorial. She has curated exhibitions and seminars on artist publications Todo, En parte (MUSAC, León, 2013), the publication See you later (Sant Andreu Contemporani, 2015), the exhibition A.XMI. Xavier Miserachs Archive (MACBA, 2015) and the exhibitions Sampling # 1: Documents on stage (MACBA, 2017), Sampling # 2: This is mail art (MACBA, 2017) and the seminar The boundary condition. On the archive and its limits (MACBA, 2018), the exhibition and the book Legible-Visible. Between the frame and the page (Arts Santa Mònica, 2017 and Bienal de Cuenca Ecuador, 2018), as well as the program I’m building a geodesic power structure. Clinic/seminar on graphic and sound desktop publishing (MACBA, 2019).