The University Church in Santiago de Compostela is currently showcasing the exhibition 'Agora hai terras de millo onde antes estaba Troia', created by the artistic duo Los Bravú, consisting of Dea Gómez and Diego Omil. The exhibition will be open until 20 November.
The official opening took place on Thursday, with the vice-rector for culture, language and heritage, Ana Cabana, highlighting the importance of the university as a space for the production and transmission of knowledge, where culture should be integrated as part of the educational experience. "Art is a possibility to open minds, which is essential for the work of a public university," she stated.
In this exhibition, Los Bravú present a figurative pictorial language infused with surrealist echoes and neo-mannerist virtuosity, employing collage, fusion, and displacement between codes as a form of thought. Their imagery blends contemporary design, fanzines, mass media, and an academic aesthetic, creating a cartography where narrative opens up to a symbolic dimension.
In their work, territory does not merely serve as a customary backdrop but as a spiritual landscape: a field of forces where the teluric dictates the posture of bodies and alters everyday perception. The exhibition recovers the roots of their journey in graphic narrative through large-scale canvases that pulse with contemporary urgency.
Gómez and Omil, who have been collaborating since 2012, express modernity through their ability to encode the desires of our time, allowing viewers to momentarily inhabit the invisible reverse of our present. "Exhibiting in a space like this is a true luxury, and this space and the installation are closely related to our way of constructing," the artists explained during the opening. "This exhibition directly connects with tradition, symbolism, and the accumulation of images, leaving space for free interpretation by the audience."
According to the vice-rector, the work of Gómez and Omil engages with popular cultures, traditions, collective imaginaries, and contemporary modes of producing and consuming images. "The title of the exhibition refers to a distinctly Galician idea that landscapes are not only physical or geographical but also shaped by the people who evolve over time and have different ways of relating to territories," she elaborated.
The exhibition is open for viewing from Tuesday to Friday, between 11:00 and 14:00, and from 17:00 to 20:30.
