On Friday, January 24, 2025, BilbaoArte Foundation’s URIBITARTE40 Hall will present the book “Nobody Can Share the Flavour of Mint” about the exhibition that runs until February 2. Lorenzo Galgó, Iñigo Villafranca Apesteguia (curators) and Mikel Ruiz Pejenaute (designer) will be present at the presentation. After the presentation, the artist Leire Lacunza will perform the intervention “A sun effect”. Admission is free and open to the public until full capacity is reached.
Useful information:
Date: Friday 24th January
Time: 7 p.m. (presentation) / 7:45 p.m. (intervention)
Venue: URIBITARTE40 Hall
(Paseo de Uribitarte, 40. 48009 Bilbao).
Free entrance until full capacity is reached
A Sun Effect. LEIRE LACUNZA
A Sun Effect is a performance, which evokes a bright landscape indoors. Leire explores the physical effect of light, the glare as a means of momentary blindness; light and shade as conditions that make the image possible.
The title comes from the following words by Nick Land: “life, any terrestrial process, is still only a momentary stoppage of the solar flow”. If the destiny of solar energy is total waste, death is its only end and life, the resistance to that waste. Throughout the history of art, we find different expressions of this resistance that, like a collection, seek to overcome the transience of the matter.
LEIRE LACUNZA MIRANDA (Donostia, 1996) She holds a degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s in Painting from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and participated in the Workshop for Artists led by Itziar Okariz and Jon Mikel Euba (Tabakalera). In 2019, she completed a six-month artist residency at the Shangyuan Art Museum in Beijing, and in 2021, she received a BilbaoArte grant in the Residency and Studio Allocation category.
She has participated in several exhibitions, including amp XXVIII ZAURIA/LESIÓN at Okela Sormen Lantegia (Bilbao), PALADIN at Sala Bastero (Andoain) as part of the HARRIAK program by Eremuak, PINTURA MURAL at Horcasitas Palace (Balmaseda), ZURE BEGIAK BESTEARENAK DIRA. TU REFLEJO ES EL MISMO at the JJGG of Vizcaya (Bilbao), KEAK LUR HARTU DU at Aire Gallery (Bilbao), and HURRY MATTER at the Shangyuan Art Museum (Beijing), among others.
She is currently engaged in theoretical and practical work as part of the doctoral program in Contemporary Art Research at UPV/EHU.