Where the silence is under suspicion and the void is a symptom of a past life, Eduardo Nave goes solo to feel the pulse of the landscape memory. In the series SOLO VOL. IV, Nave decides to break through all the historical barriers of the former Segovia prison to register the mood of the space and get us closer to the listening experience.

Prisons purpose has changed through time and, specifically, Segovia prison, an actual cultural center, keeps into its walls several stories. It was a center of Franco repression and among its most famous stores it highlights the mass jailbreak of ETA prisoners on 1976. After its premises were abandoned, it has also been a scenario for shooting several cinema events and TV shows.

The void of the old prison is an essential acoustic resource not only to hear the echo from the past but also to mentally rebuild stories. The context invites us to speculate on real or imaginary sentences, what fosters a tragic atmosphere in its mystery. In prisons origin lay the need to keep secret the treatment given to crime. They are places that naturally bring about cunning, slyness and punishment, but they are also centers of human resistance where the word freedom had its meaning. Feeling the pulse of the building is the usual method Nave uses to look for psychological and emotional status. The act of seizing every image lay on his solo listening to the former Segovia prison and this has been the result.

Mireia A. Puigventós

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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
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    Old provincial prison of Segovia (Spain). At present transformed into "Segovia Jail, Creation Center".
“And then came the smell, the heat of the animals before dying, the cold after death, their screams, the hustle and bustle of people coming and going, the butchers cutting up the animals, the offices and the accountants, trucks loading and unloading…this was a slaughterhouse! And now it is a cemetery, but with no carcasses”.


Sometimes I fall in love with ruins/ with their aroma their fog their secrets/ their shreds of pain make me blush but their remembrance nurtures me…

Mario Benedetti. RUINS.

Eduardo Nave evokes the history of a place under the guise of a ruin. His way of seeing lends a melancholic feeling to the work, expressed as absence. The decaying walls of the Matadero (Slaughterhouse) reveal the impermanence of human activity, the passing of time and the finitude of things. Enigma arises from contemplating what was once there, but is now impossible to reconstruct. Emptiness endows the landscapes with a dreamlike dimension known to haunted places. The consequent loss of meaning entices one to rebuild it, thereby allowing the ruin to become a space for fantasies and imaginative speculation. But fantasy and imagination also conjure up ghosts. The Matadero’s deserted chambers are inhabited by specters, the photographer’s own desires, fears and concerns projected onto these remnants from the past.

Mireia A. Puigventos
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    District of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain).
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.
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    The old municipal slaughterhouse of Legazpi (Madrid, Spain). At present transformed into “Matadero Madrid”, a great cultural center.