Tabakalera, newly inaugurated, meets in an exhibition of artists little known to many people: Arenzana Imaz Intxausti Plenty Peral With the surnames laid, they wanted to recover the artists, bring them to this day, teach them their work, recognize them. They form a tab with all the artists that pass through it, it's no small matter.

This is what Gema Intxausti says in his file: “The works of initiation, made with cleaning cloths, and the pieces of zeal, can be framed among the proposals that marked the renewal of the sculpture languages of the 1990s in the Basque context. Later, Gema’s work acquired a more narrative touch, as it gave a very important place to cinematographic, musical or literary references.”

Gema Intxausti Miangolarra (Gernika-Lumo, 9 September 1966) is an artist who exalts private conversations between artists. He was in Arteleku in the early 1990s, but then he's been out for many years.

This photograph was taken at the photomaton of the Madrid station of Atocha.

In issue 4 of Eremuak magazine, Beatriz Herráez interviewed him. “In my life, the journey has been constant. (…) The idea of the journey has always been there, since it was small. For me, those places that were beyond our environment were important, but then I didn't know why. I think that territory marks the identity of each of us, but I'm not comfortable with that. I feel closer to the idea of a travel identity, as if, in a way, it were lighter. Thanks to this, I join the personal experiences that emerge without being linked to a place and its past. I wonder what it would be like to think of a landless identity.”

And so do I.