No somos ni de aquí ni de allí, 2015
Color photography. Photo album
150 units. 18 x 25.5 cm each
Collection of BilbaoArte Foundation
Registry No.: 2015. 297.1
No somos ni de aquí ni de allí [We are Neither from Here nor From There] is the phrase spoken by a woman with whom the artist embarks on a bus journey from Bilbao to the town of Monterrubio de la Serena, in the province of Badajoz, on August 3, 2015. The artist documents this pilgrimage through one hundred and fifty analog photographs, which are compiled into a photo album.
This work is part of a larger project. Under the title Sangre Nueva (“New Blood”), the ongoing documentary project is a tribute to all the Extremaduran emigrants who, in the middle of the last century, left their villages in search of better development and prosperity in their lives, ultimately settling in many other towns and cities in the Basque Country, becoming part of its human landscape.
José Jurado (Villanueva del Duque, Córdoba, 1984). He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada (2007). He has completed the Master’s in Professional Photography and Documentary Reporting at EFTI and the Master’s in Art Creation and Research from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as an MA in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester (England). Jurado works across various disciplines and has received grants for both training (Iniciarte, Erasmus, Séneca, Fundesfor) and the production of artistic projects (Iniciarte, ECAT Toledo, Fundación Rafael Botí, Matadero Madrid). He has participated in group exhibitions in spaces such as the Canal de Isabel II Room in Madrid, the Sala d’Art Jove in Barcelona, the ECAT Space in Toledo, Off Limits in Madrid, Asm28 Gallery in Madrid, Matadero Madrid, Villa Irís at the Fundación Botín in Santander, and Sala Puerta Nueva in Córdoba, among others. He is a founding member of Rural Contemporánea.