Bestial Celestial: Queer Power in Monstrous Form
by Eduardo G.
Somewhere between desire and dissidence, a creature with oil-painted wings and graphite claws begins to stir.
From June 12 to 26, deep inside Barcelona’s industrial underbelly — Palo Alto, Carrer dels Pellaires 30 — a sanctuary for the impossible comes alive. BESTIA CELESTIAL (Celestial Beast) is not just an exhibition; it’s a guttural howl, a queer ritual, a soft revolt dressed in pigment and defiance.
In this body of work, artist Nicasio Torres doesn’t just depict monsters — he becomes them. Drawing from the raw aesthetics of drag, hybrid mythologies, and personal hauntings, he reclaims the figure of the beast: historically used to mark the Other, the deviant, the abnormal. Here, monstrosity is not a slur, but a spell — a strategy of survival, a banner of liberation.
The paintings and drawings twist and shimmer like a fever dream — somewhere between ecstasy and exile. Through fluid lines and riotous textures, Torres creates a visual language that dismantles binary logics and colonial frameworks. Nothing here fits. And that’s the point.
Bestia Celestial doesn’t ask to be understood. It asks you to surrender. To what mutates. To what slips through categories. To what refuses to be tamed.
Free entry. Palo Alto. Barcelona
Carrer dels Pellaires 30
Opening: June 12, 7 PM.
Come as you are — or as the beast you’ve been hiding.
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