On Thursday, April 30th, an exhibition by Getaria-born artist Uxue Lasa Ameztoy, entitled “Boxes, Bodies, and Treasures,” opens to the public at the Ambigú and will run until June 28th.

In this exhibition, Uxue has chosen to showcase the most personal side of her artistic career: the most precious objects and treasures she has collected over the years in boxes, creating compositions that seem like dreams. Outside these boxes, she displays bodies, beings, and surreal landscapes larger than they could have ever existed within. Eyes, lichens, flowers, stones, bones, animals, bodies, life, death… in short, the art of nature transformed into an exhibition.

Uxue Lasa Ameztoy, born in Getaria in 1984, was a student of Rosa Valverde. From her, she learned and developed the theme of boxes, which allows her to create infinite imaginary worlds. Surrealism and existential absurdity occupy a large part of this narrative, which she revisits from time to time, combining painting or sculpture with other works.

Always willing to experiment with new materials and techniques, or with materials that have clearly fallen out of use, such as plaster, Uxue is able to find new objectives and benefits. In her works, color acquires notable importance, lending freshness and a certain informality. She is influenced by her maternal uncle, Vicente Ameztoy, both in the themes she explores and in the way she approaches and develops her work.

She has been vice president of the Basque Country Sculptors Association, has participated in and organized numerous exhibitions, and in recent years has been part of the team at the Urmara Museum.