Exhibitions
Abigail Lazkoz and the hybrid identity
Azkuna Zentroa–Alhóndiga Bilbao exhibits Lamb, half cat, almost dog, a journey by Abigail Lazkoz (Bilbao, 1972), one of the most recognized Basque artists of her generation in the field of expanded drawing. Her practice, which establishes connections with painting, sculpture, and architecture, finds in this proposal a space to review her own trajectory and open new avenues of creation.
Articulated between the retrospective and new production, the exhibition presents an expanded project that starts from the review and reorganization of pre-existing works, put in relation with new and unpublished pieces. In co-production with DA2 Domus Artium 2002, the exhibition resumes and expands the project initiated in 2025 in Salamanca with I have a singular animal, proposing a new reading of her visual and conceptual universe.
The title of the exhibition refers to Franz Kafka's story about a singular animal, a hybrid creature that combines characteristics of a lamb and a cat and that, unexpectedly, also aspires to be a dog. This figure becomes the starting point for a reflection on identity, difference, and the impossibility of reducing what is complex to a single definition. Kafka's narrative introduces a tension between opposing poles and questions any expectation of reconciliation or definitive synthesis.
In this sense, Abigail Lazkoz transfers this idea to her own artistic language and proposes an exercise of approximation to otherness that avoids the will to unify differences into a homogeneous whole. On the contrary, she claims the complexity of identities and the value of contradictions, assuming the hybrid condition as a possibility of construction and expression. The figure of Kafka's creature, with its mix of natures and its tender perplexity at its own condition, thus becomes a metaphor for diversity and the need to accept that which does not fit into established categories.
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