The exhibition
ITINERARIOS XXIX
From November 23, 2024 to March 1, 2025
Since 1993, Fundación Botín has awarded the Fundación Botín Art Grant to support Spanish and international artists in the research and production of new projects. The annual exhibition Itinerarios is the culmination of this grant, reflecting a broad range of interests and artistic practices.
Itinerarios XIX presents the projects of the six artists selected by an external jury for the 2022 application calls. Each project displayed should be understood as a work in itself, and as a unique invitation to engage with the languages and networks that the artists have been working over the last two years.
The twenty-ninth edition of Itinerarios presents the works of Alice dos Reis (Lisbon, Portugal, 1995), Patricia Domínguez (Santiago de Chile, Chile 1984), María Salgado (Madrid, Spain, 1984) & Clarisa Navas (Corrientes, Argentina, 1989), Antonio Menchen (Toledo, Spain, 1983), Belén Rodríguez González (Valladolid, Spain, 1981) and Laura Fernández Antolín (Valladolid, Spain, 1993).
The jury in charge of choosing the projects was made up of Aimar Arriola and Soledad González, curators and researchers, along with the artists Joâo Onofre and Eva Fábregas, both of whom have been awarded these grants in the past.
This decision stands out for the diversity of practices chosen, which range from performance to more traditional techniques reinvented through contemporary practice; from attention to subtlety and handiwork in the works of Belén Rodríguez González and Antonio Menchen to the more cosmic in the videos by Patricia Domínguez and Alice dos Reis, along with the project by María Salgado, who worked with the filmmaker Clarisa Navas to intertwine language and image, associating people and places that are related with their biographies. Likewise, Laura Fernández Antolín’s work explores new ways of approaching materiality through paganism.
