"Hilos que bailan", an exhibition by Eva Lootz

Preview: written before the show opened

Before computers, there were looms. Eva Lootz, a leading name in Spanish experimental art since the 1970s, follows one thread from pre-Columbian textiles, read here as ways of storing information, through early writing, navigation and the industrial revolution, to the loom as an ancestor of programming.

It's a video, and movement carries it: the dancer and choreographer Kike García Gil, who also embroiders, puts thread and body in the same frame. Along the way come Ariadne and Penelope, the needlework generations of girls were raised on, and an Indigenous worldview built on "mutual nurturing" between people, animals, nature and objects. You watch it in the second-floor communication room, home to the museum's codices, so a show about thread as language plays beside books written in pictures and glyphs.

It's the fourth chapter of a series that began at the Museo del Traje. Entry is the €3 museum ticket, free on Sundays, Thursdays from 14:00, and for under-18s, over-65s and students aged 18 to 25.