MATCH Residency 4: Hannah Taylor and Nafsika Hadjichristou join MATCH Residency at La Escocesa

• 24.02.2026

The fourth residency of the MATCH project will take place from the 1st to the 31st of March at La Escocesa in Barcelona, Spain. It will conclude with a public sharing of the artistic outcomes of this process in September, 2026.

La Escocesa is an artist-led contemporary visual arts organisation and residency space managed collectively through the artists’ association ‘Associació d’Idees EMA’. It supports artists and cultural agents, offering workspaces and resources for the development of their projects. As a space inhabited by the artistic community, La Escocesa focuses not only on the production and creation of works, but also on the common generation of knowledge, networks of care and new ways of building and practising cultural institutions. 

As a feminist space, La Escocesa’s values arise from an intersectional, emancipatory, cooperative and inclusive position, which advocates for sustainability, experimentation, collaboration and the development of community artistic projects. This understanding of the institution also translates into the intention to generate sustained collaborative networks with neighbour institutions such as the institute, the health center, and the municipal civic center in Poblenou, the industrial zone where it is located.

This residency welcomes Hannah Taylor and Nafsika Hadjichristou, two artists whose practices intertwine art, craft, ecology, and social inquiry.

Hannah Rebekah Taylor (1993) is a grower, dyer and artist. She was born in the UK and spent her childhood growing up in South Africa and later rural England. She studied Anthropology at Sussex University. She has lived and worked in Paris, London, and Marseille where she now resides in the Belle de Mai neighbourhood. Her work draws from her cross cultural upbringing and her Anthropology studies, exploring story telling and human connection to land, environment and found materials, specifically in the context of the climate crisis. Hannah works predominantly with reclaimed and foraged materials, natural dyes and pigments. She has previously collaborated with ‘The School of Mutants’ collective. Her work has been shown in London, Kaunas, Ljubljana and Marseille.

Nafsika Hadjichristou is a visual artist from Nicosia, Cyprus, working with photography, film, and experimental storytelling. Rooted in slowness, memory, and poetic observation, her work weaves together images, writing, scrapbooking, animation, and sound into intimate, tactile reflections on land, resistance, and belonging. With a background in documentary and a deep commitment to collaborative and participatory practice, she has worked locally in her country, as well as in solidarity with communities in Latin America, exploring how storytelling can resist erasure and nurture social change. She sees artistic practice as a space for reflection, community, emphathy and connection— between personal diary, archive, and collective memory. She holds a BSc in Film and Television Production from the University of York.

For her residency at La Escocesa, Hannah wants to experiment and play with locally sourced materials—weaving, painting, assembling, and dyeing—as a way of exploring how we build connections with the environments in which we live.  For her part, Nafsika is interested in exploring the idea of collapsology through a workshop in which people will create a collective collage aimed at imagining collapse or new possible futures.

During their month-long residency, the artists will be accompanied by Julia Soler, an art historian and permaculture expert who is part of the Mas La Sala cooperative in Catalonia. She will accompany their artistic processes and also connect them with the local farming community.