Ixone Sádaba: Escala 1:1

Azkuna Zentroa—Alhóndiga Bilbao, Bilbao Society and Contemporary Culture Centre, presents Escala 1:1, an exhibition showcasing photographic research conducted by artist Ixone Sádaba regarding the material, symbolic, and political legacy of the Lemoiz nuclear power plant.

At the brink of disappearance after over forty years of isolation, this concrete monolith amalgamates all the layers of its history and the potential future that the battered state of this infrastructure still allows us to envision. 

The project, curated by Carles Guerra, is an invitation to imagine a new access policy through which the subject of the power plant could become part of a public debate. Ixone Sádaba approaches this exercise of restitution by screening life-sized fragments of the structures at the Lemoiz facility inside the exhibition halls of Azkuna Zentroa.

The exhibition includes a replica of the 1974 observation deck originally built to accommodate site visits. Previously located on a hill near the road leading to Lemoiz, it is now positioned at the entrance to the main exhibition space, serving as a symbolic vantage point from which to look down on past, present, and future.

Ixone Sádaba
Artist and researcher Ixone Sádaba is the director and co-founder of Moving Artists International, and a member of other organisations such as Teja and On The Move, aimed at protecting artistic practice in an emergency context.  

She has held exhibitions in national and international institutions, such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Guggenheim Bilbao, and MOCCA Contemporary Art Museum in Toronto. Her work is included in the Guggenheim Bilbao, MNCARS, ARTIUM, MUSAC, Iberdrola and BBK collections, as well as in numerous private collections. 

Azkuna Zentroa—Alhóndiga Bilbao. Bilbao Society and Contemporary Culture Centre
Azkuna Zentroa is the Bilbao Society and Contemporary Culture Centre, with a local and international perspective open to dialogue with different community groups. Azkuna Zentroa is a place to take part in culture as a practice, process and space for experiences, through four lines of programming: Visual arts, Performing Arts, Film and Audio-visuals, and Literature. These lines dialogue among themselves generating a hybrid, multiple and expanded programming. Always with education as a way to generate critical knowledge and transform society through art and artists.