Jorge Yeregui. Los mismos lugares

Madrid, Spain

We think places stay still. Jorge Yeregui shows they are constantly being built, extracted, protected, sold, damaged — and imagined again.

Jorge Yeregui Hablar de piedras

Image credit

Jorge Yeregui Hablar de piedras. Léxico mineral, 2024 © JORGE YEREGUI / VEGAP, MADRID, 2026

Meet the artist

ArtLovers Tip

After the exhibition, walk through the city with a different eye. Look at empty plots, new buildings, protected areas, construction sites, and “natural” landscapes. Los mismos lugares teaches you that no place is neutral — every space has been shaped by desire, economy, memory, and power.

Exhibition Highlights - What you’ll see

Contemporary photography expanded into visual essay, video, installation, documentary research, fieldwork, and spatial analysis.

Yeregui’s (Santander, 1975) practice uses the image as an analytical tool to study how territories are protected, intervened in, or re-signified — and how those transformations reveal social, cultural, environmental, and political dynamics.

Los mismos lugares brings together four bodies of work by Jorge Yeregui that examine how contemporary societies inhabit and transform territory. The exhibition moves across photography, video, installation, and other formats, expanding photography beyond the framed image into a research-based field of observation.

You’re watching:

  • Landscapes shaped by extractive industries
  • Places affected by the real estate market crisis
  • Urban growth as a visual and political force
  • Human relationships with nature, protection, exploitation, and transformation
  • Images that connect specific local contexts with broader global questions

The result feels calm at first — almost observational — but gradually reveals something more urgent: every landscape carries evidence of decisions, systems, and power.

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you’re interested in photography, architecture, cities, ecology, and how places change over time.

Because this is not landscape photography as “beautiful view.” It is landscape as evidence. Yeregui uses images, documents, fieldwork, and critical research to expose the invisible structures behind what we see: extraction, housing pressure, urban expansion, and environmental tension.

It matters because Los mismos lugares asks a very contemporary question: are these really the same places — or have we transformed them so much that only the names remain?

How to experience it

Don’t look for spectacular images first — look for systems.

Ask what each place is revealing: extraction, speculation, growth, protection, damage.

Move slowly between photography, video, and installation: the meaning builds through research and accumulation.

Think about Madrid, your own city, and the places you believe you know.

Notice how the exhibition turns territory into a political archive.

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