On its tenth anniversary, Tabakalera today inaugurates Arcoíris 82, an exhibition by artist and filmmaker Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe (Eguesibar, 1988), produced in collaboration with the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The exhibition is based on unpublished material generated during the filming of Aro berria (2025), the director's first feature film, which will premiere in the New Directors section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film concludes a long research and creative process centred on the Arco Iris community, which settled in the Ulzama Valley (Navarre) during the 1980s. In Arcoíris 82, Gorostidi brings some of those materials into the exhibition space and proposes an experience that transcends cinematic narrative to situate itself in the realm of experience.

The exhibition consists of two multi-screen video installations, Marathon and Samsara, which are projected alternately. Samsara also includes a series of photographs taken during filming, along with archival footage from the Arco Iris community. The interviews and recreations on display showcase how, during the filming process itself, the boundaries between representation and experience became blurred and real emotions emerged from those who embodied the characters.

More than telling a story, the exhibition offers an immersive tour of the bodies and testimonies of those who participated in these performances. Between the fragility of the word and the truth of action, the images stand as a living record of the community practices that inspired the film.

Irati Gorostidi and Tabakalera Generation

Irati Gorostidi is part of the so-called Tabakalera Generation, a group of filmmakers and artists who have undertaken their projects inside the audiovisual creative ecosystem of the international centre of contemporary culture. Her career is closely linked to Tabakalera: in 2020 she participated in the Noka programme, aimed at emerging Basque filmmakers, and in 2022 she was selected under the Tabakalera residency programme, the San Sebastián Film Festival, and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola's Ikusmira Berriak with her project Anekumen, which ultimately became Aro berria.

With Aro berria, her first feature-length fiction film, Gorostidi is consolidating a career begun with works such as Pasaia bitartean (2016); Euritan, co-directed with Arantza Santesteban (2017); Unicornio (2021); San Simón 62, with Mirari Echávarri (2021), and Contadores (2023), presented at the Critics' Week in Cannes and at the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section of the San Sebastián Film Festival.

Film series and complementary activities

As part of the programme of activities complementing the exhibition, Tabakalera has organised a film series exploring Gorostidi's work and filmmaking, as well as a special session that will offer the public the opportunity to engage with the director and the filmmakers with whom she has collaborated on her projects. The series will conclude with a Spoken Cinema session on Aro berria (2025) in which the director will explain the creation process of her latest film. The programme of activities also includes guided tours and an introductory course to contemporary art.