Project 49
Mañana - Sergei Nemudrov
January 16th - February 13th, opening reception Friday January 16th from 19h
For years since moving to Spain, I've been completely focused on trying to negotiate with people using my communication skills to the fullest. Hundreds of messages inviting me to meet, paint somewhere in suburbs, or just have coffee always boiled down to the same phrase: "a ver, mañana." It turned into a participatory performance, where the only participant is myself. The next day — or mañana — it never happened.
Street art and social media publicity in general, is something quite accessible and inevitable, something I'll stumble upon one way or another. It's also a kind of performativity, the process of drawing or its distribution, which I'd like to share, but this reality happened without me, at least today, and tomorrow — let's see. It was not about painting at all, nor about tomorrow.
“Mañana” became a top Mock Spanish word, like “Hasta la vista” or “Chica”. Anthropologically, its casual use by non-native speakers is seen as a subtle form of linguistic racism, even though many people use it harmlessly, thinking it’s playful or flattering.
This, then, is where Sergei Nemudrov’s exhibition begins: a research into the mañana experience not in an anthropos or logia discourse, but in άτομο — the individual human unit in Greek.
The narrative centers on a non-imaginary, exclusive reality — one that functions precisely by missing a particular person. For migrants, the first words they learn in a new language are the ones easiest to associate with daily life — and often, the most common response to their attempts to connect is the ambigu-ous “mañana.” The exhibition is set between two worlds: the singular reality that took place, and another that is equally real, yet occurred without us.
We warmly welcome everyone to experience both sides in one day at Tangent Projects in January 2026.
BTW, everyone could be part of this show if Mañana happened. But I'm grateful for the motivation and inspiration without you it would not have happened
