Belio Magazine recommend the exhibition “There is No Road” (The road is made by walking). It’s a contemporary arts exhibition featuring moving-image and other works by fourteen international artists, approximately half of which will be new commissions that will be shown for the first time at LABoral. The Exhibition will take place at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain, from December the 12nd until March, the 16th.



Taking its cue from the famous lines of the poet Antonio Machado, There is No Road consists of a range of artists’ projects that record or evoke a series of actual or imaginary journeys, either through the local landscape of Asturias, or through a comparably remote and mountainous terrain. Many of these journeys are made in a spirit of ‘pilgrimage’ (inspired by the proximity of the Camino to Santiago which runs through the North of Spain). In an echo of the Camino, the journeys undertaken are frequently on foot, gravitating towards iconic, culturally significant locations or in pursuit of historically resonant sites, in so doing uncovering or retracing paths that have been walked many times before. Others, by contrast, are forays into the wilderness, to places where roads cease to exist, or are obscured by the mist and rain that is a characteristic of this isolated mountain topography; journeys along roads that have become impassable, or have to be forged or discovered, as if for the first time.

“There is No Road” is curated by Steven Bode, Director of Film and Video Umbrella, London. The selection of artists included in this collective show are: Axel Antas (Finland), Ibon Aranberri (Spain), Ergin Çavuşoğlu. (Turkey), Gabriel Díaz (España), AK Dolven (Norway), Simon Faithfull (United Kingdom), Annabel Howland (Netherlands), Roberto Lorenzo (Spain), Lutz & Guggisberg (Switzerland), Alexander & Susan Maris (United Kingdom), Erika Tan (Singapore / United Kingdom).


Gabriel Díaz


Annabel Howland - Lutz & Guggisberg


Erika Tan


Erika Tan


Ibon Aranberri


Simon Faithfull