Bronagh Ni Chiarnain
Larruak eta izurrak
Larruak eta izurrak is an exhibition located in Donostia /San Sebastian. Larruak eta izurrak displays a plurality of sculptures, installations and objects that reclaim, after decades of historical disaffectation, a space. They claim that the incomprehension, apathy, and disengagement with the violence of the intricate world requires other forms of learning, discernment, and collaboration.
Featured artists and sculptors
The exhibition displays works by Sahatsa Jauregi, June Crespo, Kimia Kamvari, and Nora Aurrekoetxea. Also, the exhibition features some diverse contexts, with works represented by Yael Davids, Iman Issa and Lucia Koch. Each of these artists has an individual approach to using different materials and space, whilst also using the human form and its movements as inspiration.
Nora Aurrekoetxea
Nora Aurrekoetxea is a Bilbo artist currently located in Holland, who features in the exhibition. Aurrekoetxea notes that the Spanish language does not have the expression to ‘fall in love’ (tomber amoureux), which implies the act of falling, and awakening the contradiction of violence. This 'falling' requires our protection, and puts the message of 'how can we protect ourselves from a pain invoked but not yet suffered?'. This specific piece of work showcases the divide between the visible and the invisible by using contrast between the fabrics; concrete canvases, towels and reinforcing rods to create the image of opacity and transparency, as the two fabrics create friction, "a body that splits in two", and that relies on each other to sustain itself.
Iman Issa
Iman Issa is a Cairo artist who insists on implications rather than explanations. This 3D sculpture represents her series ‘Proxies, with a Life of their Own’. The sculptures are accompanied by small text panels that identify the works as self-portraits, but also as portraits of other people, mainly literary people. The text panels show a quotation, a statement or paraphrase the writer or thinker once thought.
Yael Davids
This performance artist interprets the body as an archive of shared histories of pain and ability, and as a tool to be used to learn the confidence to not know and to learn again. However, Davids notes, 'art institutions are more oriented to care for the artefact, and not for the body'.
Sahatsa Jauregi
June Crespo
Lucia Koch
Kimia Kamvari
References
https://www.tabakalera.eus/eu/larruak-eta-izurrak-erakusketa/
Larruak eta izurrak booklet pages
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