White Cuib

Artist: Amaia Molinet

Exhibition: 4.10 – 8.10.2021 

Opening: 4.10, 19:00h

White Cuib, Franklin Delano Roosevelt St., no. 2/1, Cluj-Napoca 

 

The project “The Spring I Lost / The Lack of Touch” arises from different visual, formal and vocal exercises between stimuli that were both missed and desired during the lockdown period of 2020. In this way, it mainly consists of different photographic series of a not excessively obvious personal impact of the pandemic; different allusions to breathing are suggested, to the nature as a cultural construction, to the loss or desire of keeping in touch, concentrated symbolically on the physical presence of the Mimosa Pudica plant.

 

Whereas the first and main part of the project displays an obvious visual nature, the second part is presented as an experimental verbal exercise. It pays attention to both the plasticity of phonetics and to meanings and etymologies, even when going beyond the previously described ideas and thoughts. Apparently different parts are closely related as, after all, they are elements with which to interpret that personal impact of more than a year of pandemic.

 

Amaia Molinet (b. 1988) is an artist native from Lodosa (Navarra) and she lives and works in Bilbao. She holds a Master in Contemporary, Technological and Performative Art and a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the UPV / EHU. She develops her artistic practice from an expanded photography, addressing the relationship between territory and identity, and highlighting landscape’s symbolic features. 

She has been awarded grants and prizes by organizations such as the Guggenheim Museum, INJUVE, Eremuak, C arte C, Centro Huarte or BilbaoArte Foundation and she has carried out artistic residency stays in Artifariti (Western Sahara), SÍM House (Reykjavík), Nau Estruch (Sabadell, Barcelona) and Zébra3 – Fabrique Pola (Bordeaux).

She has had individual exhibitions such as “The Earth may want to be like it was before existing” in Hiriartea (Ciudadela de Pamplona), “Das Paradies” at La Taller Gallery (Bilbao), “Future Fossils” at the Archaeological Museum of Bilbao and Centro Cultural San Martín (Buenos Aires) and “Mugak” in BilbaoArte Fundazioa. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in contexts such as the Huarte Contemporary Art Centre, Sala Rekalde (Bilbao), Montehermoso Cultural Centre (Vitoria-Gasteiz), San Telmo Museum (Donostia), Fabra i Coats Centre d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona), or Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery (Madrid), among others. 

 

Bitamine Faktoria is a cross-border cultural production and creation factory aimed at promoting and internationalising culture, design and contemporary art. We are based in Irun and we are committed to the territory. Thanks to our cultural projects and support programs of creation, we strengthen the artistic and cultural field of our community. Public space is our field of action. Our fundamental working tools are mediation, participation and co-creation. 

FdP IMPEX 2.0 – international multidisciplinary residencies is a project carried out by The Paintbrush Factory together with three international cultural organizations (L’Abri in Geneva, Switzerland, TRAME in Oloron Sainte Marie, France and Bitamine Faktoria in Irun, Spain), in order to develop an international network of residencies of contemporary art creation and performance.

 

Parteners: White Cuib, Bitamine Faktoria. With the support of The Basque Government 

Cultural project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

Project organized with the support of the City Hall and the Local Council of Cluj-Napoca.