Places categories: IVAM Centre Julio González

Presentation by the curators of the exhibition Daniel Nebot and Nacho Lavernia, with the designers Marisa Gallén, Sandra Figuerola, Luis Lavernia, Luis González, Carlos Bento and Eduardo Albors.

We first discussed the idea of joining forces and setting up a large studio in a car on the way back from Milan. It didn’t come up spontaneously; we’d already worked together on a couple of other projects and the possibility of doing something more together was in the air. We´ll be talking about that: how we set up La Nave, how the group expanded, and how we finally found the space we named it after.

Although there was no conscious intention behind it, we soon realized that there was a “La Nave spirit”, a particular way of doing things, a sort of common criteria that things either fit into or not. It’s not often you find that kind of essence that permeates everything no matter who exactly makes them, but there it was. And soon the media and other colleagues came to see what we were doing, what the space was like, what kind of projects we were working on and how we organized things in our own particular way.

Nacho Lavernia