MUNTREF: Nagore Legarreta

As part of the EAS-EZE 2025 programme, Nagore Legarreta Alcelay will present her work ´El río no es un lugar´ (The river is not a place) at MUNTREF, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 9 August and 7 September. This work suggests focusing our attention on the river and letting it reflect back on our contemporary society. It also establishes a dialogue with the rivers that were once buried underground, giving light to landscapes hidden within the city of Buenos Aires itself.

For Nagore, this work evokes her childhood. She lives in the neighbourhood of El Portu (The Port), so called because many years ago the river Urumea, which runs through her hometown of Hernani, was navigable. Her family has always been closely linked to the river, and these images come to her mind when she thinks of her home and her roots.

For this project, Nagore used tin-can cameras placed in the river, leaving a small hole just a few centimeters below the water´s surface through which the light passes."

Nagore Legarreta

Nagore Legarreta Alcelay (Hernani, 1981) is a photographer with a special interest in pinhole photography. She runs photography workshops and works on artistic photography projects. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication and has attended workshops led by various prominent figures in the field. Using analogue techniques, Legarreta produces dreamlike, timeless images that uniquely define her work.

EAS-EZE

The aim of the EAS-EZE programme run by Bitamine Faktoria is to internationalise contemporary Basque art, encourage artistic research and production, and promote the international mobility of creators and artists.

EAS-EZE is held annually with support from the Etxepare Basque Institute, the Basque Government´s Department of Culture, the Department of Culture of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the Centre for Contemporary Art (part of the network of museums associated with Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero (MUNTREF), and the Basque Government Delegation in Mercosur.