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Nava, Jorge. VEGAP, Madrid 2024
La necesidad del Ser
TECHNICAL DATA
Author: Jorge Nava (Gijón, 1980)
Title: La necesidad del Ser (Human Needs)
Year: 2006
Technique: colour photograph on paper
Size: 140 x 115 cm
Category: Becas Photomiami 2007
This is one of the first pieces to be added to the Contemporary Art Collection, FMCMP, after the donation from four young Asturians as a result of the scholarship which, awarded by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation and Gijón City Council, allowed them to participate in the Photo Miami fair in 2007, one of the world’s leading events in the field of photographic and video art. In the case of Jorge Nava, we see a continuance of that figurative and neo-expressionist line that the young man from Gijón has been practising since his first public exhibitions.
The work of Jorge Nava usually relates to real natural settings and people, with lights and contrasts dominating to finally shape their own fictitious effect. He uses careful staging, which harmonises his small world with an obsessive, disturbing and essential attitude. A committed discourse, which lies between the mysterious and the truthful, combining tradition and fiction. A way to deal with many problems of the conceptual tradition to connect with a new narrative proposal, without rejecting the expressive force. In his career there have been different concerns, with photography and painting as his main ways to look at the everyday, in an almost processual rhythm where he constantly integrates both fields. In his admiration for transmitting, we can see him as closer to that contemporary singularity that assumes the work as a vital experience, causing controversy in the looks, revealing the intimate feelings of the models, without respecting the limits imposed by modesty or social taboos. A practice that tries to reinvent the look, with transverse relationships towards love or sexuality, loneliness and isolation of the characters portrayed.