On the occasion of the Xacobeo Year 2021, Corpos Presentes brings together more than thirty works belonging to the María José Jove Foundation Art Collection, which will be presented at the University Church and at the Pazo de Fonseca in Santiago de Compostela. The Camino de Santiago is considered a backbone of European culture and a unifying mechanism for cultural dialogue between different countries, to which different values ​​of both a religious and non-denominational nature are associated.

Corpos Presentes allows us to rethink some of the ideas associated with this symbolic route, such as pilgrimage, searching, inner contemplation, the relationship with the body, or walking as an action of transformation. This conceptual framework places us before a context as rich as it is parallel to creative development itself and its sacred nature, allowing us to extrapolate it to the artists' inner journey of inquiry, knowledge, and creation.

Artists included in the exhibition:

Mariano Fortuny (1838-1874); Salvador Dalí (1904-1989); Anselm Kiefer (1945); Georg Baselitz (1938); Antony Gormley (1950); Luis Gordillo (1934); Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010); Antonio Saura (1930-1998); Juan Muñoz (1953-2001); Helena Almeida (1934-2018); Julião Sarmento (1948); Elmgreen and Dragset (1961-1969); Ángela de la Cruz (Galicia, Spain, 1965); Manuel Vilariño (1952); Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012); Nuria Güell (1981); Paloma Polo (1983); Esther Ferrer (1937); Alberto Datas (1935-2007); June Crespo (1982); Maruja Mallo (1902-1995); Cristino Mallo (1905-1989); Castelao (1886-1950); Sofía Táboas (1978); Gutiérrez Solana (1886-1945); Julia Huete (1990).