The Museo Universidad de Navarra has inaugurated the new exhibition of Javier Vallhonrat, a production of the new contemporary art center and curated by Santiago Olmo. The exhibition aims to confront the situation of uncertainty posed by nature with the need for control and foresight inherent to human beings.

"Interactions" has been presented by Jaime García del Barrio, general director of the Museum; Santiago Olmo, curator of the exhibition; and the artist, Javier Vallhonrat. "Today we present the first exhibition change of Museo Universidad de Navarra. And we do so with a new project, but one that is closely linked to our holdings. An artist from 2015 that dialogues with another from 1853. This is the way to make our Museum's collection grow: a harmonious expansion, with a historical sense, that makes our collection different, with its own sense or message," said Jaime García del Barrio.

Santiago Olmo, curator of the exhibition, highlighted the origins of the project: "The project began in 2010, when Javier Vallhonrat was invited to visit the photographic collection of Museo Universidad de Navarra, in Pamplona, to participate in the center's program called "Tender Puentes". With this program we intend that current artists get to know the history of photography and its primitive authors to then develop their contemporary creations". Vallhonrat focused his attention on two photographs of the Maladeta massif, in the Huesca Pyrenees, taken by Viscount Joseph Vigier after ascending from Luchon to the Portillón de Benasque at an altitude of 2,440 meters in the summer of 1853. Vigier's photographs are his starting point and a possibility to dialogue with one of the first photographers to face the mountain from a close experience.

"Interactions" is composed of 52 large-format and beautiful photographs, seven videos and a video installation. It is structured in five work groups: 42ºN, Standard Drift, Margin Records, Limit Friction and Eolionymy. It occupies the entire floor -1 of the building designed by Rafael Moneo, more than 1 ,200^m2 of exhibition space, with a total of six halls and corridors.

The exhibition is completed with the publication of a book of the same title, "Interactions", which will be distributed nationally and internationally, and the following public programs for all audiences: a film series called "Strangers in Paradise" and two workshops given by the artist to be held in the first fortnight of September. The first, on creative processes and resources, will take place on the campus of the University of Navarra; the other will be at the Maladeta refuge in the Pyrenees, where Joseph Vigier, Richard Long and Javier Vallhonrat himself made their photographic series.