INNER OUTER SPACE

A triptych composed of three independent and yet interrelated pieces - Teatrillo, Inner Outer Space and Under the Nothing Night – this is Lertxundi’s first film since relocating to the Basque country from California in 2019. A new setting but the same sun drenched blue sky and sea. Like all of Lertxundi’s work, Inner Outer Space is a film about relationships –  between characters, between characters and landscape, between image and sound – but also and ultimately a deconstruction of the production process that highlights materiality and artifice. Just like the blindfolded woman in the film who attempts to orientate herself in a new geography, Lertxundi is learning – through the making of a film – to reacquaint herself with the landscape of her native Basque Country. The concluding chapter – in which two young women perform a mysterious choreography to the projected images of waves – is an outburst of pure feeling.

Bilbao, 1981. She lives and works between Los Angeles and the Basque Country. Her films were screened at the Whitney Biennial in 2012, and at festivals such as SSIFF, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, New York and Gijón, as well as venues such as MoMA in New York, Tate Modern or Whitechapel Gallery (London). She has held exhibitions at: Matadero Madrid, LUX (London), Tramway (Glasgow), FuturDome (Milan), fluent (Santander), Tabakalera (Donostia / San Sebastián), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao); and Marta Cervera, Katonah Museum of Art (New York), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Havana Biennial and the Lyon Biennale.
Her book ‘Landscape Plus’ (Mousse Publishing and fluent) was published in 2019. Her work is distributed by LUX in London and is part of the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía collection.