Exhibitions
Nuu 2025 opens a new horizon with the slogan All the screens of tomorrow
La Nuu is the Rubí photography festival, created in 2015 with the aim of bringing current trends in author photography closer to the public and turning the city into a point of reference in this discipline.
The Nuu Festival in Rubí is a cultural and musical celebration that fills the city of Vallès Occidental with young energy and creativity, with a program that combines urban music concerts, artistic workshops, street food and participatory activities. Conceived as a space open to everyone, the Nuu is committed to giving visibility to both emerging artists and established names, transforming Rubí into a vibrant meeting point where music, art and fun coexist in a unique and festive atmosphere.
From 1 to 31 October, with Bonart as the official media, and with the exhibition motto of the eleventh edition of the La Nuu Festival which is: All the screens of tomorrow . Curiously, the year 1984 —which gave its name to George Orwell's famous dystopian novel— also saw the publication of William Gibson's Neu-romantic. This work began with an image as powerful as it was disturbing: "The sky over the port was the color of a television screen tuned to a dead channel."
THE NUU, Carles Camps Mundó (Spain, 1948).
The exhibition motto All tomorrow's screens aims to be both a warning and a declaration of the future. This year's motto dialogues with the song All tomorrow's parties by The Velvet Underground and with the essay by the artist Antón Patiño Todas las pantallas encendidas . The screens of tomorrow can become a party, because it is in our hands to defend a visual democracy and sustain a creative resistance of the gaze. The screen is today the new support for images, and the history of photography is also the history of these supports. The word comes from a cross between a branch and a fan; apparently harmless elements that, however, invite us to think beyond dichotomies such as apocalyptic or integrated, technophile or technophobic, retronostalgic or futurophobic.
The artists participating in the Rubí International Photography Festival, La Nuu, include a diverse and international selection of renowned visual creators. Among them are Chloe Azzopardi, Carles Camps Mundó, Joan Teixidor, Katrin Koenning, Xavi Bou, Tatu Gustaffson, Vanessa Pey, Alexander Binder, Amandine Kuhlmann, Cristobal Ascensio, the FSA Archive and Cecilia Coca Peña. This variety of artists allows the festival to offer a plural look at contemporary photography, combining local and international perspectives, traditional and innovative techniques, as well as experimental projects and personal narratives that invite the audience to explore the richness and complexity of the current photographic image.
INSTANT FOSSILS, Cristobal Ascensio (Mexico, 1988).
We must open our eyes again, learn to look and reclaim the creative experience of vision, the poetic dimension of the necessary images and, ultimately, the art of living. As happens in each edition, the exhibition motto articulates a selection of photographic and visual works that challenge us about the dangers of this totalitarian and addictive visual regime to which we apparently voluntarily submit. At the same time, these works open paths towards new forms of creative resistance that allow us to escape from optical hegemony and the narcotic and alienating web of images.
