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PROJECTS IN WHICH I PARTICIPATE
AMAIA MOLINET
FUTURE FOSSILS
Cretaceous snails are hidden in various structures and monuments of our cities, erected with sedimentary rocks filled with shells of gastropods from the time of the dinosaurs, approximately 100 million years ago. From a deep concern about the transformation of our planet (or the ‘deposit’ we leave it in) and by the consideration of this phenomenon, I developed a great curiosity and speculation about the formation of fossils in the future, from connotation and suggestion. Regarding this concern, I begin to carry out an intuitive and personal documentation of various living beings such as insects and snails, in order to speculate on their forthcoming, future fossil forms. I foresee a work that would relate to fossils, to photography and video images of these living beings, and artificially manipulated materials in opposition to other matters, identifiable by their natural origin.
Amaia Molinet (Lodosa, Navarra, 1988) lives and works in Bilbao. She holds a Master Degree in Contemporary, Technological and Performing Art and a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from the UPV/EHU. She develops her artistic practice as an investigation of the territory, she reckons as an influencer of identity. She has received recognition for her work through grants and prizes such as INJUVE 2017, Beca Eremuak - Basque Government 2017, the Subsidy in Plastic and Visual Arts of the Government of Navarre 2016, or the production and residence grant of the BilbaoArte Foundation 2015-16. She was a resident artist in Artifariti (Western Sahara, 2015), SÍM House (Reykjavík, 2016) and Nau Estruch (Sabadell, 2017). Her work has been exhibited in spaces such as the Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo (Navarra), Sala Rekalde (Bilbao), Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Museo San Telmo (Donostia), Fabra i Coats Centre d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona), Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa (Palermo) and Casa Matei (Cluj-Napoca, Romania).
The "Future Fossils" project by Amaia Molinet has been selected by the jury formed by professor and teacher Gaspar Acebo; the project directors at R.A.R.O. Residency Almudena Blanco and Lina Ángel; the cultural manager, project curator and co-founder of ANTESpacio Laura Díez; and the Bitamine Faktoria team.
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IZARO IEREGI
TIME FOR LOVE
Time For Love includes more than a year of research. During the summer of 2015, Izaro Ieregi made several visits to the documentation centre of the Benedictine Foundation of Lazkao and obtained an extensive collection of stickers from different social movements in the Basque Country. This material served as an excuse to start working on the decontextualization of the depicted images, focusing on images with a performative character, which involves action, body, and violence in a certain way.
This project deals with the subjectivity in social groups, with the way it is created and sustained, in order to question the representation and perception of images. For this reason, the artist considers it important to leave her own context in order to see reality represented as signs, therefore, to return to zero degree. For the execution of this, she has set up a methodology of exercises based on a score written about a selection of these images. By using these exercises called "Grade Zero", the aim is to demonstrate all these ideological mechanisms of a community that also live in historical moments. The first exercises were carried out in Bilbao, then in Xiamen (China) and now they will be implemented in Buenos Aires. The substance of the exercises consist of different video and photography sessions in which a group of performers participate. The archive, the score, the bodies and the subsequent documents are the elements that structure these actions.
For the artist, it is a question for the future, a responsibility of the tomorrow, which invites us both to think about the story and also to rewrite a decentralized history deriving from an aesthetic approach, based on working with archives of social movements.
Izaro Ieregi (Algorta, 1987)
The research of Izaro Ieregi aims to trace historical memory through different cultural manifestations, focusing on an ever-changing and deeply conflicting social, political and cultural context, observing from a multidisciplinary perspective. The artist concentrates on her immediate surroundings, fusing her own personal experiences with a community that has a powerful socio-political imaginary. Through the many faces and aspects of recreation she looks to the past to activate the future.
In Izaro Ieregi's work, sculpture, video art and different cultural manifestations intersect. Graduated from the Fine Arts Faculty of the UPV-EHU (2010), she held her first solo exhibition at the CEAC space in Xiamen, China (2017). She is currently working on her next exhibition at the Casa Torre de Ariz (Basauri). She has also presented her work in the following spaces: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2017), NY Space in Manchester (2016), Getxoarte (2016), Bilbao Arte Fundazioa (2016) and the Complutense University of Madrid (2015). She is a founding member of the OKELA space based in Bilbao.