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Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Bab Sebta by Randa Maroufi, held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 12 February to 21 April.
Text: Salma Mochtari
Graphic Design: Azul Prusia
Bab Sebta (Ceuta’s Gate, 2019) by Moroccan-French artist Randa Maroufi (Casablanca, 1987) reconstructs situations at one of the three land border crossings between Morocco and Spain (and between Africa and the European Union), that of Ceuta. Thousands of people depend on crossing this border every day, including an intense traffic of smuggled goods that are sold in the north of Morocco at advantageous prices.
Maroufi follows the routes of some of these people to observe daily life at the border, where Spanish police and customs agents exercise a control that is challenged by the various strategies of the smugglers waiting patiently for their turn to cross.
Borders separating nation-states are generally places that alternate between relatively restricted control and porosity. In the case of Ceuta, Maroufi observes the almost performative nature of the rituals involved in the movement of goods and people from one side to the other, as well as the interactions and negotiations that enable this. How relationships are formed in specific spaces and how people move through these lies at the heart of many of Maroufi’s projects.
Bab Sebta is not a documentary film, but rather a form of interpreting a coded liminal space. Produced in a factory converted into a film studio, Maroufi collaborated with people who come and go between Morocco and the enclave of Ceuta by using two perspectives: an overhead one that refers to a distanced, supposedly objective view of the territory, and frontal shots that allow us to affectively approach the gestures, corporealities and materialities that make up these scenarios.
The Z Gallery is a space that explores new ways of associating film with art. It is neither a film season in a cinema nor a typical exhibition. It is a project that constructs a third space in the museum from which to visualise and analyse works by artists approaching the cinematographic field and filmmakers exploring the exhibition format. It is a programme that was created to think about the moving image in the museum, introducing authors seeking new narrative forms by questioning the conventions, genres and categorisations that have historically defined cinematographic language.
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Soneto de alimañas by Naomi Rincón Gallardo, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 6 Octuber 2023 to 7 January 2024.
Text: Itala Schmelz, Mauricio Marcin
Graphic Design: Azul Prusia
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Everything Near Me, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 24 June to 24 September 2023, as a part of Z Gallery programme.
Text: María Palacios
Graphic Design: Azul Prusia
On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition Everything Near Me, the museum will host a conversation between the artist and filmmaker Laida Lertxundi and the Chief Curator of Artium Museoa, Catalina Lozano and the screening of the exhibition's films.
24 June, 5 pm
Conversation between Laida Lertxundi and Catalina Lozano
Z Gallery. Free entrance until full capacity
Reservations: 945 20 90 20 and artium.eus
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition San Simón 62, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 24 March to 18 June 2023, as a part of Z Gallery programme.
Text: Sara Torres
Graphic Design: Azul Prusia
Everything Near Me is a film installation comprising two chapters. The first explores a variety of affective landscapes that are also related to specific socio-political contexts, those of the Basque Country and California. The second, filmed over two years in the Basque Country, combines everyday scenes with lush landscapes, fleeting moments that shape and sustain life.
Laida Lertxundi is an artist and filmmaker, combining conceptual rigor with sensual pleasure in a process she calls Landscape Plus, her films establish parallels between landscape and the body as centers of pleasure and experience. Her work has been shown at High Line Art, New York (2023), Whitney Biennial, New York, (2012), Hammer Museum (2016), LIAF Biennial (2013), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Frieze Projects New York (2014), MoMA, New York (2022, 2017), y Tate Modern, London (2016) among others. Pedagogy is central to her practice, and she currently teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon.
Ren Ebel is an artist and writer from California. He works in a range of media including video, sound, text and drawing. He received his BFA in film and video art from the University of California, San Diego, and his MFA in studio practice from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. His art has been shown at Gattopardo Gallery in Los Angeles, the Now Instant Image Hall in Los Angeles, the Spectacle Theater in New York and Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, Spain. His writing has appeared in a variety of international publications including Artforum, Mousse, X-TRA and Frieze.
This exhibition is organised with the collaboration of MONDRAGON.
The Z Gallery is a space that explores new ways of associating film with art. It is neither a film season in a cinema nor a typical exhibition. It is a project that constructs a third space in the museum from which to visualise and analyse works by artists approaching the cinematographic field and filmmakers exploring the exhibition format. It is a programme that was created to think about the moving image in the museum, introducing authors seeking new narrative forms by questioning the conventions, genres and categorisations that have historically defined cinematographic language.
A convent in Lizaso (Navarra) was home to the eccentric Arco Iris (Rainbow) community in the 1980s. The drab walls of the building were adorned with huge floral motifs and its rooms hosted large gatherings where people experimented with cathartic practices that had a new age tinge. The building today is inhabited by cloistered monks and the traces of that period are almost imperceptible.
The authors of San Simón 62 approach the place attracted by the testimonies of their mothers, who spent time in the Arco Iris community in an attempt to shake off the after-effects of Franco’s regime and confront the personal and political challenges of this new era.
Irati Gorostidi and Mirari Echávarri were neighbors for the first few years of their lives. The change of city separated them until some time later they met again in Bilbao to study Fine Arts. They've been working together ever since.
Mirari Echávarri's latest works have been exhibited at Tabakalera, Artium Museoa, the Navarre Museum and international film festivals, among others.
Irati Gorostidi is developing her first feature film, selected for the 2022 Ikusmira Berriak program. Her previous films have been shown at international festivals and museums.
This exhibition is organised with the collaboration of MONDRAGON.
The Z Gallery is a space that explores new ways of associating film with art. It is neither a film season in a cinema nor a typical exhibition. It is a project that constructs a third space in the museum from which to visualise and analyse works by artists approaching the cinematographic field and filmmakers exploring the exhibition format. It is a programme that was created to think about the moving image in the museum, introducing authors seeking new narrative forms by questioning the conventions, genres and categorisations that have historically defined cinematographic language.
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Clamor, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from July 22 to Septiember 18 2022, inside Z Gallery programme.
Text: Andrea Cinel
Graphic Design: Azul Prusia
July 22, 12 pm
Free entrance
On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition Clamor by Edurne Rubio, framed in the Sala Z program, the author will present the film that gives its name to the exhibition.
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