Hemendik Hurbil / Nearby. Clemente Bernad - La Virreina Centre de la Imatge Winter Art Season, Exhibitions
10/26/2024 - 01/26/2025

The photographer Clemente Bernad (Pamplona/Iruñea, 1963) has spent decades capturing the great social and political crises of southern Europe. His latest work is Hemendik Hurbil (Nearby), a book with 470 images that comprehensively portray the Basque conflict from 1987 to 2018. Now La Virreina Centre de la Imatge is exhibiting the images resulting from this project, which invite us to immerse ourselves empirically into the scenes, in those moments in which violence suffers ―as the photographer himself says― from a perverse viscosity..