Meet the selected artists to participate in the After-lunch Portfolio Reviews
We are pleased to announce that Beatriz Polo Iañez (Cuando se acaba el día: When the Day Ends), Ignacio Navas (KICKFLIP), Miguel Muñiz (Nordés), Néstor Lisón (Sun and Sand), Sara Berasaluce (Nenita), and Verónica Velasco (Diario de Todo: Diary of everything) have been selected to participate in the Sobremesa Screenings that we will hold on Saturday, October 11, from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
The mentioned projects have been chosen by our viewers to compete for the Sobremesa Screenings Award 2025. During the day on Saturday, the artists will share their projects and creative processes with industry professionals, generating a space for meeting, dialogue, and exchange around contemporary photographic creation.
Later, the winning individual will have the opportunity to participate in a decentralized cultural circuit: a tour of festivals and spaces dedicated to photography that seeks to bring this discipline to new territories and audiences.
Ignacio Navas – KICKFLIP
Ignacio develops interactive and computational projects based on photographic imagery. Through his work, he seeks to understand and question how dominant structures—political, economic, or social—manifest in everyday realities and how they shape our lives through their underlying logics, conflicting interests, ideological biases, and the consequences derived from all of this.
Beatriz Polo Iañez – Cuando se acaba el día
There is a narrative, a pain, and a silence that are inherited. Fragmented phrases from an unfinished story are remembered. As in many Spanish families, silence was established among their relatives, teaching them to see, remain silent, and not to ask.
They grew up with the grandmother’s weeping, which evoked her childhood amidst a path filled with corpses. Decades passed before discovering that those sentences referred to the exodus known as “la desbandá”.
Cuando se acaba el día seeks to recover the memory of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Spanish Civil War that occurred on the road from Málaga to Almería, through the testimony of survivors and their families.
The portraits converse with archival images and snapshots of a coastline mistreated by tourism, rampant construction, and greenhouses. Remnants of the old N-340 road still persist, and in its waters, every day, immigrant individuals arrive, evoking those who fled that February of 1937.
Miguel Muñiz – Nordés
Sea, land, and wind. People, animals, and living beings conditioned by the smell of salt and the constant cold humidity. Latitude 43º 47’ 23.6’’ N, Longitude 7º 41’ 17.9’’ W. Northwest wind.
The wind observes the embrace of the giants: The Atlantic and Cantabrian seas meet every moment in an epic and transformative dialogue. Both strike forcefully against the cliffs in an unyielding murmur, an intense, constant, and eternal chant that resonates from the origins of memory, ours and that of the world.
This wind shapes a distinct character and imbues beings with its continuous presence, conditioning the course of lives and moments. A drizzle accompanied by the rhythmic sound of metals on the masts and the murmur of the pines forms the idiosyncrasy of a unique land.
In it lies the yin and the yang, the good and the bad. The project speaks of the wind and the rugged land of Vares, evoking in memory the waves and breezes, the aromas and the character of its people. Women and men of the Northwest wind, of Vares, who adapt to the wind and the world in which they live: a living epic present in every being and that emerges in every camera shot, reflecting an ancient and persistent greatness.
Néstor Lisón – Sun and Sand
During the opening period of the Franco dictatorship, the slogan “Spain is different” was imposed for tourism promotion, emphasizing the call of sun and beach.
As in any dictatorial regime, it was about controlling everything, and it was also defined how the postcard should be, mainly thinking of seducing the tourist.
In some way, these visual codes have endured to the present day.
Coastal destinations continue to be the preferred ones in Spain and Portugal for summer vacations, with the beach being the quintessential place of enjoyment.
Sun and Sand (in Spanish: Sol y Arena) is a project that aims to reflect on the use of beach space, on the conversion of a more or less natural confined space into a kind of room with a view, where, despite the uninhibitedness, sometimes time seems to pass slowly.
Sara Berasaluce – Nenita (Girl)
Nenita is part of an intimate and family exploration of anosmia, the absence of smell, a hereditary condition that I share with my aunt. Far from approaching it as a tragic deficiency, this project approaches it from an artistic and perceptual perspective. I am interested in how the lack of a sense can open new ways of seeing, feeling, and representing. Photography allows me to translate the intangible, that which escapes verbal language but can be suggested visually.
In Nenita, I work with images that evoke the organic, the uncertain, that which is present but cannot be named. As in my previous works, absence becomes a gateway to other sensory and emotional experiences.
Verónica Velasco – Diario de Todo (Diary of Everything)
In this photographic diary, I reflect on the experience of living; it is a personal diary, an intimate object in which all kinds of experiences and feelings are captured from the most direct subjectivity.
It is articulated in a torn gesture: manipulating and breaking the photographs that comprise it, with texts that are a stream of consciousness of everything I feel: anger, love, fear, happiness. There is a great force between written photography as a confessional and intimate encounter.
This project arises from the need to connect what I feel to the reality that surrounds me, to transmute all these emotions into something that is at least a little more intelligible, to be able to point out the intimate in the everyday and immerse the viewer in an experience where they can see and discover themselves, a journey of perception that speaks of the wound of being alive, of everything.
Specifically, the Sobremesa Viewing Award 2025 offers the opportunity to be part of the programming of the following spaces and festivals throughout different Spanish towns: Fest Comarcas Photo (Huelva 2026), IV FER FOC (Soria 2026), Negativo Foto (Badajoz 2026), Facultad de Bellas Artes – Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and in our Pa-ta-ta Festival (Granada 2026).
Through exhibitions, talks, workshops, publications, or interventions, the winning project will be able to be part of the programming of these spaces, thus expanding its reach and connection with different creative communities.
