The artist Aitor Ortiz has presented this Thursday the exhibition The tracing memoryan exhibition produced by the Museo Universidad de Navarra which can be seen on floor -1 from this Friday until next March 3. Of the 140 works that make up the exhibition, more than 80 have never been exhibited before. This is the case of the project Linkproject, which could be seen for the first time and which includes the music of composer Gorka Alda, created for the exhibition.

In his presentation to the media, the artist, accompanied by Valentín Vallhonrat, artistic director of the Museum, explained that in the exhibition architecture is the starting point. "It is architectural photography but not from the historicist point of view, which tries to document the buildings. In this case there are no references or data. I'm not interested in commenting on these buildings, but rather in generating, with their decontextualization, a narrative."

In this sense, he pointed out that precisely this absence of data "speaks of the relationship with architecture in its pure state. It speaks of structure, density, emptiness, transparency, opacity... All the qualities inherent to architecture".

Thus, La memoria trazadora does not pretend to be an anthological exhibition, but brings together pieces from the mid-nineties to the present. The author's series are not presented as isolated elements or in a chronological order, but as a coherent ensemble that reflects, in works based on very different strategies and supports, on a series of fundamental themes related to the ambiguities of representation and the mechanisms for its interpretation.

Ortiz also recalled that on his visit to the Museum, the Collection of 19th century public works photography evoked many memories "of significant places from my childhood". Specifically, the albums of the Altos Hornos de Vizcaya.

In this sense, Vallhonrat underlined the originality, solidity and seriousness of Ortiz's work, and pointed out that in this project, Ortiz "has reflected on issues of the Collection that were present in his work".

This Friday 28th, at 7:00 p.m., the artist will give a masterclass in classroom 1, followed by the opening of the galleries on floor -1. On Saturday, starting at 10:30 a.m., there will be a children's workshop Once upon a time my photobased on the exhibition; and on Friday, November 16, at 12:30 p.m., the photographer Martí Llorens will give a conference entitled Photographing: seeing, understanding and relating to the world through a technique..