Rebeca Malcon’s “Un millón de viajes”: Roads, Traffic and Video Art at F2 Galería, Madrid

110 kilometres an hour by car, about 100 by train. Some 30,000 vehicles a day, each shaving microns off the asphalt. Carbon dioxide climbing inside a closed car with every extra passenger. These are not the opening lines of a transport report but the raw material of Rebeca Malcon’s “Un millón de viajes” at F2 Galería in Madrid, a solo exhibition of video installations on view from 29 October to 30 December 2026.

A first solo show with a clear voice

Malcon, who lives and works in Madrid, belongs to a generation of Spanish artists trained across art, design and research. She graduated in Fine Arts from Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in 2020, added a design degree there in 2021, and completed the Master’s in Art Research and Creation at Universidad Complutense in 2023. Her CV lists “Un millón de viajes” as her first solo exhibition, but she arrives with a body of experience: group shows at CentroCentro in Madrid, Shimokitazawa Arts Gallery in Tokyo and MAC Florencio de la Fuente in Huete; first prize at the Muestra de Arte Joven La Rioja in 2021; and residencies including Matadero Madrid’s environmental-projects programme in 2024. Earlier pieces include algorithmic sound performances and a wearable loudspeaker suit — a sign that sound has long been as important to her as image.

The road as a living system

The exhibition text by critic Jorge de la Cruz describes five works, each a self-contained system of figures and codes that the viewer has to decode, bringing their own experience of travel to it. What unites them is a way of looking at infrastructure as if it were alive. The road network is compared to the channels of a cell, carrying information rather than cars. The hydrocarbons in asphalt are noted as food for microorganisms and algae. A crack in the road is repaired so smoothly that drivers at speed never see it — the text calls it a perfect scar.

The landscape glimpsed from a moving seat — houses, wasteland, trees and buildings flicking past the train window — becomes a continuous discontinuity, and the roar of traffic begins to sound like the sea. Out of this everyday data Malcon builds what the text calls an alien view of the city: the road as a home, speed as a new way of seeing.

Three works to look for

• Ruta infinita I (2026) — an HD video installation, ten minutes long, and the exhibition’s cover image: the road as an endless loop.
• Urbanosis (2026) — a 4K video installation with sound, also ten minutes, whose title fuses “urban” with a clinical suffix, as if the city were a condition.
• Las olas (2026) — “The Waves”, an audiovisual installation of 9 minutes 25 seconds that makes the comparison between traffic noise and the sea explicit.

Where it sits in Spanish video art

Moving-image work about mobility has a long history, from the structural films of the 1970s to the road movie. What is distinctive here is the data-led starting point. Rather than filming a journey and letting it speak, Malcon begins with measurable facts — speeds, emissions, wear — and lets them generate form. That approach connects her to contemporary artistic research practices around ecology and infrastructure, an interest already visible in her Matadero residency, while the immersive, sound-driven installations keep the experience physical rather than didactic.

F2 Galería and Doctor Fourquet

F2 Galería, directed by Paloma González and Enrique Tejerizo, opened its Madrid space in 2014 and represents both established and emerging Spanish and international artists. It sits on Calle del Doctor Fourquet in Lavapiés, the short street near the Museo Reina Sofía that has become one of the city’s densest gallery clusters — easy to combine with a museum visit.

Why go

First solo shows are where collectors and curators meet artists early, and this one is unusually coherent: one theme, five works, a clear method. For artists working with video, it is a useful case study in turning research into atmosphere. And for anyone who spends hours in traffic, it may change how the commute looks the next morning.

Visiting information

F2 Galería, Calle del Doctor Fourquet 28, 28012 Madrid. 29 October – 30 December 2026. Open Tuesday–Friday 10:30–19:30 and Saturday 11:00–14:00; phone +34 91 504 81 06, email [email protected]. An opening reception had not been announced — check with the gallery. Full details are on our Un millón de viajes listing and the official exhibition page. For more openings in Spain and beyond, see Upcoming Art Exhibitions in Leading Galleries.