Exhibition: «Badakizu», Irantzu Yaldebere at URIBITARTE40

On May 3, 2024, at 7:00 p.m., the URIBITARTE40 Hall opens the doors to its third individual exhibition of the year with the work of Irantzu Yaldebere, a grant holding artist at the production center in 2023. Under the title «Badakizu», the exhibition can be visited until June 2.

The artistic practice of Irantzu Yaldebere (Bilbao, 1994) is channelled through photography, where her direct and improvised style captures shots, fleeting moments and subtle details of what is happening around her.

Badakizu [Now you know] draws on and gives continuity to Badakizu zein ederra zaren? [Do you know how beautiful you are?], the photobook published this year and which is a compilation of the photos by the artist between 2015 and 2023. The design and conceptualisation of both projects converge in time and take on different forms through their development in such different spaces or media as the two-dimensional objectality of the book, and the three-dimensional spatiality of the exhibition room.

The exhibition comprises three fictitious blocks of images—Icon, Ads & Instant—produced in the last nine years and which help the artist to structure and interrelated her photos. These direct and enigmatic photographs—after sufficient time has passed since they were taken—end up acquiring meaning and logic in the artists body of work, and thus becoming accessible to the eyes of others.

Yaldebere finds in her work the flexibility of time, overlapping past, present and future, both in the capture of an ephemeral moment and in the construction of images.