Camiños Creativos
(Creative Ways)
Centro Gaiás, Cidade da Cultura,
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
April 2023
In her exploration of presence and our relationship with the environment, Sara Alonso has made walking a recurring artistic practice.
In 2016 she walked the Camino de Santiago from Madrid to Muxía, capturing fragments of the journey in cyanotypes made with elements found along the way. The experience gave rise to her artist’s book Not Alone, a reflection on the need to step away from social media and recover full attention to the present.
She went on to complete the Henro Michi, the circular pilgrimage through the 88 Buddhist temples of Shikoku, Japan, and in 2022 the Camino Primitivo. On each journey she has recorded her experience in cyanotypes, building a living archive of her relationship with the landscape.
Conceived as fragments of time captured in full connection with nature, these works are part of an evolving project that grows with every new journey.Interaction and dialogue with the public are among the pillars of the group exhibition Camiños Creativos at Centro Gaiás, Cidade da Cultura. Many of the works depend on the participation of visitors, seeking surprise, reaction or human movement in order to complete the creative process itself.
