Drawing on his own experience of exile, Zaraa builds a narrative that doesn't turn inward but opens up to others: the show is developed in collaboration with artists with functional diversity through the collective Debajo del Sombrero, turning a personal story into a collective work.
Fundación Montemadrid
Portraying the cultural life and social action of an open house.
We document the main activities of La Casa Encendida in images and video, accompanying its cultural programme and the social work of Fundación Montemadrid with a perspective of our own.
La Casa Encendida is a landmark of culture in Spain and one of the great stages for contemporary creation. A social and cultural centre of Fundación Montemadrid, it programmes more than fifteen hundred activities a year across four areas — culture, solidarity, the environment and education — bringing the most avant-garde artistic expressions together with reflection, debate and social action.
365 days a year of non-stop programming.
For the past year we have created the photography and video of its main activities: exhibitions, encounters, concerts and workshops, alongside the many initiatives of the foundation's social work. A constant flow of production that turns each day into story, and gives the house a visual memory to match its pace.
Every year, numerous artists take to the stages at La Casa Encendida.
An unconventional programme that blends experimental musical avant-garde with electrocumbia. Figures like C. Tangana, alongside international artists and DJs —from the experimental electronics of JASSS to the Latin-club explosion of Safety Trance and Phran—, find their meeting point on the LCE stage, drawing crowds that leave not a single event without its Sold Out sign.
From video to Motion: content as diverse as its programming.
Our work with La Casa Encendida goes beyond coverage. We create video and photography pieces that document its events, but we also support them with Motion content for some of their most important occasions, working side by side with their graphic design team. Added to this are stop-motion pieces and animations, through which we expand the centre's visual language and shape content as diverse as its own programming.
From children to the elderly: content for every kind of audience.
La Casa Encendida's programming is as diverse as its audiences, and our work adapts to each one of them. We cover events designed for every profile: from activities for children to programmes for older people, as well as events created for people with functional diversity. Each format calls for a different sensibility, and in all of them we look for the visual language that best connects with those they are meant for, so that no audience is left out of the story.
A World of One's Own
Basel Zaraa turns the experience of exile into a space created and inhabited by many voices.