Izena duenak izana du (Everything that has a name exists)
The French artist Sarane Mathis shows three paintings revolving around stories of nature, myth, war and family history. The story goes that mythical beings called the Laminak once took refuge on the beach of Tarnos, in the South West of France. Driven from their homes in the French Basque Country when the Christians arrived, they settled here to contemplate the sea from their wooden cabins, which they tirelessly rebuilt after each storm.
Now, they rub shoulders with surfers and dog walkers, and watch on as the Nazi ruins gradually sink into the sand. But most of all, they keep company to the ghosts of the artist’s own family. The tryptic unveils the strength of fragile constructions, that can always be rebuilt and reborn, in contrast to the impending erosion of the concrete bunkers from an authoritarian past.
