Txmas project

Last December I had he chance to experiment with pinhole photography. These pictures were created in relation to an assignment for the photo agency Posse Photo in Italy around the theme of Christmas.

Exhibition in the Museo WÜRTH, in Rioja

Last December I was involved in an exhibition in the WÜRTH Museum in Rioja. I couldn´t go and see it myself and I have just received the pictures so I am uploading them here to keep track of where the last year has gone!

Last exhibition of the year in Bilbao

GIA opened the doors of its studio at the Bilbao Arte Foundation the last days of December. It showcased the work produced by 10 European artists realized during 2009 in Zorrotzaurre and Altos Hornos steelworks during our residency in the Basque Country. We have been selected to have a mayor exhibition this year, what it is keeping us really excited!

New series

This is a new series I’ve just started at the studio I work occasionally in Cardiff. I take pictures of 10 to 15 people a day and after every session I ask them to photograph their backs. The collection is getting bigger and I will post the final results soon.

Exhibition of GIA in Metro Bilbao

Last Thursday the first exhibition of `Ghosts in Armour´programmed in Bilbao started at the Casco Viejo Station in Metro Bilbao. Valentín Ochoa, a Spanish worker from Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, opened the show with a welsh steelworker, Alan Williams, employed in Whiteheads for 34 years.

It has been a great experience to create an exhibition for such an environment and we have learn a lot working alongside an organization as Metro Bilbao.

We have been working on a virtual tour to make accessible to all the artworks of the 10 different artists at the Metro. Click in http://www.ghostsinarmour.com/interact/art/casco-viejo-exhibition-virtual-tour

El pasado jueves 10 de Diciembre se inauguró en la Estación de Casco Viejo de Metro Bilbao la primera de las 4 exposiciones programadas en Bilbao de `Ghosts in Armour´.

Valentín Ochoa, trabajadador de Altos Hornos de Vizcaya junto con Alan Willliams, trabajador de Whiteheads en Newport, inauguraron una exposición que muestra el trabajo de 10 artistas en un entorno único.

Estamos trabajando en un tour virtual que hará posible que todos puedan experimentar esta muestra y sus 10 paneles artísticos. Pero mientras lo preparamos aquí tenéis varias imágenes del acto.

Metro Bilbao

One of the last series I have started tries to freeze a long second in the underground or train stations around the world to make us stop and find the routine of our behavior interesting. It has been inspired by the large format pictures of Massimo Vitali where nothing seems to happen until you look closer and closer… Enjoy exploring on them!

‘Espacio Cercano’ Exhibition

‘Espacio Cercano’ is an exhibition running from the 6th November to the 6th December 09 at the Instituto Riojano de la Juventud in La Rioja, Spain. 4 artists from Rioja have been invited to return to their region to showcase a series of work dealing with what we have interpreted for ‘close spaces’. The project has edited a DVD with interviews realized to all the participants and their portfolios.

Commission for Jet Lag Bio 09

We created  Urban Reaction Research Lab as a creative platform to develop interactive projects related with urban environments. Our first big commission has been for Jet Lag Bio, a urban youth festival in Bilbao in early October. We showcased a site specific tent with an interactive portal to allow the citizens to explore the city of Bilbao trough augmented reality technology and a cube interface.

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Zorrotzaurre, Bilbao

In Bilbao again, the explorations have started! We have been planning access to different sites and interviews with the locals and exworkers. These images are the interior of Lancor, a factory on the peninsula that will be saved from the regeneration. At least the structure will remain giving place to new activities.

A city of containers

While exploring industrial key locations by the river near Bilbao we came across to this land where lots of cointaners have been stored. Every day the mountain grows and grows and they keep being stored on top of others. The building sector has suffered the worst consequences in Spain and as such companies attached to this sector are struggeling too. This ghostly village shows its open doors to abandonment, loneliness  and nature.