Project 49
Mañana - Sergey Nemudrov
Curated by Bogdana Skorik & Madison Katrina Flood
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 the 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.”
Sergey Nemudrov is an artist who works across instlallation, sculpture and drawing. His artistic research is linked to organics, migration and collective experiences in urban situations.
Originally trained as a designer with a strong academic foundation, he began his career in street art and later evolved as a fine artist. In his practice, Nemudrov expands the boundaries of contextual background from the past within the reality of happening.
Sergey is interested in setting new dimensions and narratives across exhibition spaces and usually forms it out of participation and dialogue within the site-specific context.
Bogdana Skorik is a curator and mediator who works with the idea of antigallery spaces. Her practice is set around vulnerable community engagement and new-generation art.
Her personal curatorial experience spread from unconventional spaces such as a gallery in an underground passage as Gemeinde in Köln and an illegally occupied abandoned cinema at La Cinetika in Barcelona to government-supported institutions like Centres Civics in Barcelona. She participated in the “Gallery in the Expanded Field” project, which was hosted in Blip Blip Blip in London and U Contemporary in Moscow from 2021 to 2024. Bogdana worked at the Manifesta 15 biennial, was a regular speaker at the Woman and Space initiative (UNESCO) and invited as a guest curator at Singulart platform.
During the past five years she curated more than 30 shows and currently Bogdana runs her own curatorial project named ARQA and plays the role of chief curator at ZNAK. Her projects were published at METAL Magazine, Les Noveaux Riches magazine and The Posttraumatic.
Madison Katrina Flood is an artist and curator based in Barcelona, Catalonia. Her curatorial work circulates around themes of community, crafting, and intervention.
From 2020-2023, she was Curatorial Assistant to Amanda Krugliak at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, most notably curating shows of Ibrahim Mahama, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Tracey Snelling. Since then, she has been working as an independent curator between the United States, Belgium, Latvia, and Catalonia.
Madison received a BA in Art History with High Honors from the University of Michigan.