Look the other way. Nicolás Combarro

  February 25, 2026 - August 9, 2026
  During the Museum's regular hours
  According to current rates
Rooms on floor -1

Curator: Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo  

The exhibition Mirar a otro lado (Looking Away) presents a cross-analysis of six of Nicolás Combarro's latest series: Serie Negra (Black Series), Arquitectura oculta (Hidden Architecture), Arquitectura espontánea (Spontaneous Architecture), Desvelar Desplazar (Reveal Displace), Soterranei (Underground) and La materia del silencio (The Matter of Silence), the latter part of the Tender Puentes (Building Bridges) artist residency project Tender Puentes Museo Universidad de Navarra.

Nicolás Combarro (A Coruña, 1979) starts from an encounter with reality, establishing a dialogue with buildings, their remains or structures, which normally go unnoticed and which the artist finds as he travels through urban, semi-urban or rural areas. These vestiges are the starting point for his work. After documenting and researching them, he intervenes and photographs these remains of industrial buildings, abandoned structures, self-built constructions, foundations, shelters, and places of confinement and repression. He has thus formed a catalog of images and documentation that allow him to investigate the ideologies hidden behind various types of architecture, but also how the relationships between reality and fiction, memory and oblivion, or between the individual and the collective, are articulated in the construction of the visual regime.

The subject of silence, his most recent project, stems from his encounter with the photograph Bram de Centelles' Concentration Camp, which belongs to the MUN collection. Based on this photograph, the series focuses on producing images of the places and architectural remains where the concentration camps designed by the Spanish and French regimes between 1936 and 1947 were located. Combarro undertakes a documentary and physical journey that records the remains of these infrastructures in a series of night-time photographs of the spaces occupied by these structures, with their architectural remains illuminated. The symbolic revelation of these spaces, a metaphor for the events erased from the country's memory, also represents the shadow of an ideological system that acted against respect for human life throughout Europe.

RELATED ACTIVITIES

Wednesday, February 25, 7 p.m.

Masterclass with the artist and curator. Nicolás Combarro and Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo