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The Arts space of the House of Culture hosts until December 7 this exhibition in which the local author explores the world surrounding car trips shared among people who do not know each other.

The Councilor for Culture of San Pedro del Pinatar, Mª Carmen Guirao, and the pinatarense photographer Mar Sáez inaugurated on Friday, November 8, the exhibition 'To those who travel', a photographic series about the shared trips by car that she collects, to Through the objective, roads, service stations, places of passage but, above all, it portrays those comrades in transit time.

This exhibition is scheduled within the Exhibition Space Plan, promoted by the Institute of the Performing Arts, ICA, in order to sponsor and publicize the artists of the Region, while giving the opportunity to the municipalities, to value the art rooms with quality programming.

Mar Sáez (San Pedro del Pinatar, 1983) studied Psychology and Audiovisual Communication and specialized in contemporary photography.

After a time dedicated to the press, he now focuses on photography through personal projects exploring the realities that concern him.

He has participated in individual and collective exhibitions in Spain and the United States, holds two Lux Awards in the Documentary category, in 2016 he published his first photobook 'Vera and Victoria' with the French publisher André Frère Editions, a work that earned him multiple awards and in 2018 he published the current one would be "To those who travel" in Phree, with texts by the writer Miguel Ángel Hernández.

In this series, the photographer from Pinatarense shows her vision about this way of sharing space and intimacy during the time that a journey that involves shared trips lasts, a practice that she performs regularly and that led her to build this project.

"For several years the trip has become a way of life for me," explains Sáez.

"A stage full of conflicting feelings. Feeling here and there. And, almost always, feeling nowhere. A period in which I have constructed a memory composed of portraits of complex subjects, of lost looks. Unknown to those I have shared dead times, waiting and crossing between cities, the moments in which one ceases to be. "

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Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar