Meet the Artist event

Edurne shows some new works of her portfolio outside the exhibition

With a group of art interested people Vanja Contemporary launched its first event 'Meet the Artist' at Somerset House, London on Sat 04 May 2013. With Edurne Aginaga, one of our artists' participation in the 2013 World Photography Awards Exhibition we thought this to be a perfect occasion to mark the start of our exhibition and events series after our website launch two weeks ago.

Edurne's series 'Lie Down' had been selected as 3rd place winner in the Conceptual Photography category of the awards. Her work was selected from more than 65,000 entries which indeed is a remarkable achievement.

We were glad to have the chance to offer our friends an exhibition tour together with the artist. Edurne gave an introduction to her work and explained how she developed the series. The audience was surprised to hear that all objects in her photographs have been physically placed on walls of public buildings and that there were no Photoshop or similar graphic programmes involved to alter any effects.

After the exhibition some people stayed on and Edurne showed interested people works of her portfolio before we then entered the more social part of the afternoon in a traditional British pub around the corner.

The exhibition is still on for another week until the 12 May. Go have a look it is definitely worth a visit!