Commodatum

Commodatum takes its title from the Latin term meaning a free and temporary loan for use, a legal and moral concept historically associated with trust, restitution, and common utility. The exhibition reflects on this idea as a way to reconsider the social function of art, property, and cultural heritage in a time marked by accumulation, isolation, and the weakening of collective forms of life.

Presented in the Church of San Martín, the project connects the founding gesture of Collegium — the deposit of the Pérez-Jácome and Lumbreras Collection in Arévalo — with the symbolic image of Saint Martin dividing his cloak to shelter another body. The works gathered in the exhibition articulate three interconnected dimensions: a critique of accumulation and the reconfiguration of value; the micropolitics of the body in relation to gender, labour, and submission; and the construction of community, memory, and horizontal forms of power.