For this exhibition, Jordi Esteva has borrowed the title of his book El impulso nómada (The nomadic impulse). Given that it is a memoir, he has searched his archive for photographs of a more personal and biographical nature. He combines ethnological photographs with others that are much more personal. Though the people featured in the photographs are from remote places such as Socotra in the Indian Ocean, the oases of Egypt or priestesses in a trance from the Ivory Coast, he got to know all of them very well and, in many cases, they became friends. For this reason, he has decided to include in the exhibition photographs of conversations around a fire, while at work and also in ceremonies involving trance and possession.
