The Andalusian Center for Photography (CAF), a space under the Ministry of Culture and Sports, has presented the absolute premiere of ‘Available Space’, the new work by the photographer Eduardo Nave (Valencia, 1976) at its headquarters in Almería. It is an exhibition organized by the Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions in collaboration with the Jose Guerrero Center, belonging to the Diputación de Granada, in which the advertising ruins of the analog era and the obsolescence of traditional and static advertising are portrayed.
The exhibition consists of 79 photographs of abandoned billboards, offering a reflection on advertising that now circulates through electronic devices and the virtuality of the Internet. This proposal, which can be seen until June 15 at the CAF, is complemented by other works made on paper using the original remains of advertising signs and an audiovisual creation by Eduardo Nave and David Linuesa. In it, «the ruins of advertising modernity» are exhibited, as analyzed by the philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky in an unpublished text written expressly for this exhibition. Lipovetsky is one of the most influential contemporary thinkers in the analysis of consumer society and new media behaviors.
During the presentation, Eduardo Nave pointed out that «the idea was to document these skeletons of a glorious past and bid farewell to a form of communication. Create a record of that ‘trashure’ that disintegrates year after year contaminating the environment and the visual landscape.»
«This exhibition is an example of the new and exciting documentary that merges photography with conceptual expressions of contemporary art, to which the Andalusian Center for Photography does not want to be, in any way, indifferent. With this new co-production that offers the viewer a physical and sensory experience from the detritus of advertising, the CAF proclaims its strong support for new creation and authors who, like Eduardo Nave, lead the presence of Spanish creative photography on the international scene,» comments Juan María Rodríguez, director of this institution.
Eduardo Nave
Eduardo Nave (Valencia, 1976) is a senior technician in Plastic Arts and Design in Photography from the Escola d’Art I Superior de Disseny de Valencia. In 2005, he founded, along with 13 other artists, the NOPHOTO contemporary photography collective, which a year later received the Arco and PhotoEspaña 06 Revelation awards.
Since 2001, he has been a regular contributor to national and international editorial media, and his work is represented by the Daniel Cuevas Gallery (Madrid) and the Juan Silió Gallery (Santander). He has received several awards such as the Imagenera for Documentary Creation on Andalusia 2023 and the ENATE Art Prize 2023/24, among others. Throughout his career, he has participated in collective and individual exhibitions including ‘Encuentros Internacionales de Fotografía de Arles’ (France), Macuf (A Coruña), Instituto Cervantes (Paris), or PhotoEspaña (Madrid).
His work belongs to collections of institutions such as the Ministry of Culture, the city councils of Alcobendas, Madrid, Valencia, Murcia, or Tenerife, the Ordóñez Falcó Foundation, the Cartier-Bresson Family, the Congress of Deputies, the Ministry of Industry, National Heritage of Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal, the Marcelino Botín Foundation, the Dos de Mayo Art Center, the Circa XX Collection, and DKV.
