Reus, December 17, 2025The jury of the Reddis Grant - NEWART Foundation, in collaboration with Eufònic, supports artistic production and research at the intersection of art, science and technology. It has awarded the prize to ORIOL PARÉS for his project ESGUARD. The grant provides €6,000 from Fundació Privada Reddis.
In this edition, 28 high-level and diverse projects from all over Catalonia have been presented, which shows the good health of the Catalan ecosystem at the confluence between art, science and technology. Reddis - NEWART Foundation - Eufònic sincerely appreciate the dedication of all the artists and all the participating artists.
ESGUARD is a kinetic installation comprising robotic manipulators that hold fragments of mirrors and move slowly. Each unit tilts, rotates and raises its mirror, creating a geometry of reflections that fragments reality and recomposes it in real time. The work does not “show” a space: it reveals it. The project begins with a simple intuition: today we see without looking. ESGUARD turns this paradox into an invitation to reclaim looking as a conscious gesture, in the tension between urban space and nature, mediated by technological devices.
The piece also incorporates a sound dimension arising from its own material —the hum of servomotors, the minimal friction of the axes and the micro-polyrhythms of the choreographed movement— creating an emergent acoustic landscape and making audible an infrastructure usually relegated to the background. Production will take place in the workshops of NEWART Centre through a "spiral" methodology, based on prototyping, testing and refining, and will include audiovisual documentation, Open Studio sessions and activities. The project should be completed on June 15, 2026.
The public presentation of the project is planned within the framework of the Eufònic festival (July 2026), in a location in the territory of the Terres de l'Ebre, taking advantage of light, architecture and context for a site-specific experience.
The ceremony was attended by the President of the Reddis Private Foundation, Lluís Colomés, of the president of the NEWART FoundationAndreu Rodríguez Valveny, the director of the NAF Vicente Matallana and the head of production Eufònic FestivalJordi Brunet
About the artist.
Oriol Parés trained in classical music (saxophone), experimental music and visual arts. His practice explores the architecture of sound, matter and information, and how computational languages can be reimagined through art to open new ways of experiencing time, the body and presence. He currently runs SŌKI studio, a micro-label dedicated to experimental electronic ambient music on cassette.
The artist, in his words of thanks, has highlighted the importance of this type of grant, which serves as an impulse to be able to dedicate fully to his work.
About the grant.
The Reddis Grant - NAF – Eufònic provides €6,000, funded entirely by Fundació Privada Reddis. The work produced will become the property of Reddis Private Foundation, will be preserved and guarded by the NEWART Foundation and will be presented at the next edition of Eufònic, in July 2026.
This grant is inscribed within the the Prize - Fellowship of Contemporary Art Reddis Private Foundation, a biannual initiative created with the aim of supporting contemporary artistic creation and research. Throughout the different editions, the prize has accompanied projects that have reflected on territory, memory and social reality, as well as proposals that explore new languages in the field of digital art.
With this call, the Reddis Private Foundation reinforces its commitment to artists, aware of the need to have time, resources and support to develop processes of creation and research, and reaffirms the will to promote projects that contribute to a critical and mature look at the contemporary world.
During his speech, Lluís Colomés, president of the Reddis Private Foundation“This award reinforces the Foundation’s commitment to contemporary creation and innovative projects, with the conviction that supporting artists is essential to continue creating and to contribute to a more critical and mature society.”
