On the occasion of the Xacobean Year 2021, Present Bodies brings together more than thirty works from the María José Jove Foundation Art Collection, which will be presented at the University Church and the Pazo de Fonseca in Santiago de Compostela. The Way of St. James is considered to be a structuring mechanism of European culture and a unifying element in the cultural dialogue between different countries, to which different values of both a religious and non-denominational nature are associated.

Present Bodies allows us to rethink some of the ideas associated with this symbolic route, such as pilgrimage, the search, inner recollection, the relationship with the body and walking as an action of transformation. This conceptual framework places us before a context that is as rich as it is parallel to creative development itself and its sacral character, allowing us to extrapolate it to the inner journey of enquiry, knowledge and creation of the artists.

Artists included in the exhibition:

Mariano Fortuny (1838-1874); Salvador Dalí (1904-1989); Anselm Kiefer (1945); Georg Baselitz (1938); Antony Gormley (1950); Luis Gordillo (1934); Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010); Antonio Saura (1930-1998); Juan Muñoz (1953-2001); Helena Almeida (1934-2018); Julião Sarmento (1948); Elmgreen and Dragset (1961-1969); Ángela de la Cruz (Galicia, Spain, 1965); Manuel Vilariño (1952); Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012); Nuria Güell (1981); Paloma Polo (1983); Esther Ferrer (1937); Alberto Datas (1935-2007); June Crespo (1982); Maruja Mallo (1902-1995); Cristino Mallo (1905-1989); Castelao (1886-1950); Sofía Táboas (1978); Gutiérrez Solana (1886-1945); Julia Huete (1990).