Projecte 360º
Projecte 360º
CAUIRIS PETALLUM
CAUIRIS PETALLUM
Projecte 360º was created in response to the singularity of Wittmore Hotel, an unique project that offers a new perspective on the city of Barcelona through its vertical garden, hidden within its inner courtyard. This living tapestry serves as the backdrop for a temporary outdoor exhibition space, visible from all 22 of the hotel’s rooms.
Conceived as an annual initiative, Projecte 360º is developed in collaboration with one of the most prominent contemporary artists on the local and international scene, who share the hotel’s core values: freedom, inclusion, creativity, sustainability, and a connection with both the urban and natural environment.
The initiative is spearheaded by Splash, International Cultural Agency, and its founder, Dessislava Pirinchieva, a curator and cultural manager, in collaboration with Hotel Wittmore, part of the Ánima Hotels group.The project is made possible by the commitment and active involvement of the hotel’s entire team.
Rosa Tharrats
Rosa Tharrats is an artist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of spirit and matter. Through sustained research into the material and symbolic potential of textiles, she investigates their capacity to be understood, manipulated, and transformed. Her work gives rise to immersive environments shaped by light and volume, generating unexpected spatial constellations that invite embodied and sensory engagement. Textile becomes both medium and membrane—structuring space while remaining permeable to atmosphere, movement, and perception.
Across her practice, Tharrats constructs layered scenographies that envelop and reconfigure form, establishing a dynamic dialogue with architecture and the natural world. Her interventions do not merely occupy space; they activate it, revealing latent energies and subtle correspondences between material presence and intangible forces.
Her organic attunement to invisible forces and ecological systems makes her intervention at Hotel Wittmore particularly resonant. In response to the site, she proposes and creates CAUIRIS PETALLUM, a temporary installation integrated into the hotel’s vertical garden. There, the work enters into a living exchange with vegetal growth, light, and architectural enclosure, extending the garden’s sensorial and symbolic dimensions.
CAUIRIS PETALLUM
CAUIRIS PETALLUM is a plant that typically grows along the shores of green-water lakes, in the shaded areas of icy mountains, and, on occasion, among the flowers of the vertical gardens in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter.
Its physical characteristics distinguish it as iridescent, and it is noted for its ability to facilitate communication between different types of materials and spiritual entities. It can measure between one and two meters in length. On clear days, it assumes a wide range of colors: blue, green, golden, and silver.
Its medicinal properties are said to include the calming of the nervous system through daily observation, as well as the opening of unexpected viaducts toward a mysterious inner door, benign and radiant. Some mediums claim that, if gently caressed for a few minutes, it can induce strange celestial visions: orange clouds pierced by lightning, red moons, and planets encircled by bright pink rings.
Opening night
Partner and Client: Wittmore Hotel
Author and Cultural Manager: Dessislava Pirinchieva
Artist: Rosa Tharrats
General manager, Wittmore Hotel: Andrea Figueras
Head of marketing and Project Manager, Wittmore Hotel: Julia Monclús
Architect, Wittmore Hotel: Blanca Fontán
Chef, Wittmore Hotel, Restaurant Contraban: Alain Guiard
Head of installation team, Wittmore Hotel: Fran Lorca
Photography: Marc Medina
Special thanks to Francesca Tur, Connector