From 25 June to 6 November 2022 the La Verde La Malfa Foundation - Parco dell'Arte hosts the exhibition “ NEEEV. It is not exotic, it is vital ”by Begoña Zubero, curated by Giorgio Agnisola, promoted and conceived by the president of the Alfredo La Malfa Foundation and by Dario Cunsolo, with the patronage of the Municipality of San Giovanni La Punta (CT).

Originally from Bilbao, Begoña Zubero in this solo show presents eighteen large-format photographs, which attest not only to her great talent, gratified over the years by a long series of very valuable exhibition events, but they constitute the last stage of an artistic journey that, from the very beginning, he saw her define and deepen a thesis photography, characterized by a technical, formal and aesthetic, flawless in which documentation and research have allowed to give life to representations of great intellectual intensity. his career, he has worked in different fields, from photographic realism of urban spaces and still lifes to experimenting with the abstraction of subjective photography.

The works on display were made in December 2018 and portray the city of Mosul, Iraq, at the time of reconstruction, a few months after the terrible attack that led to the surrender of the Islamic State. The moment in which the city surprisingly returns to a daily life that we imagine impossible, but which rises again among the cracks of destruction, thanks to the human being's ability to survive in adverse conditions. "When you arrive in a conflict zone for the first time, with an open project, in addition to a great uncertainty, you are accompanied by news and images of that reality constantly generated by the media. You are also accompanied by the doubt about what your reaction and your response may be towards a context that up to that moment you have perceived in a rather distant and distorted way », explains Zubero herself.