URAITZ: the work of Basque photographer Jon Cazenave on display in China

The prestigious Guangdong  Museum of Art  (Guangzhou, China) is currently displaying the latest project by Basque photographer Jon Cazenave (San Sebastian, 1978), with support from the Etxepare Basque Institute. Cazenave’s work is featured in the Guangzhou Image Triennial contemporary photography exhibition entitled "Simultaneous Eidos", curated by Alejandro Castellote in collaboration with Bao Dong and Zeng Han.

The prestigious Guangdong  Museum of Art  (Guangzhou, China) is currently displaying the latest project by Basque photographer Jon Cazenave (San Sebastian, 1978), with support from the Etxepare Basque Institute. Cazenave’s work is featured in the Guangzhou Image Triennial contemporary photography exhibition entitled "Simultaneous Eidos", curated by Alejandro Castellote in collaboration with Bao Dong and Zeng Han.

Cazenave’s work, URAITZ, is a project that fuses photography and pictorial gesture to generate a formal encounter of symbolic character between the present and our most ancestral past.

This work reinterprets photographs taken by Cazenave over the past ten years (an approach to the soul of the Basque people, titled GALERNA).In URAITZ the artist uses a unique method, applying mineral pigments directly onto photographic copies to imbue the work with a new layer of meaning.