The ENAIRE Foundation presents its Photography Awards at ARCO

In this edition of the ARCO Fair, the ENAIRE Foundation's stand will showcase the work of the winning artists from last year's edition of the photography award presented annually by the Foundation. The works are by the artists Marina Vargas, Cristóbal Ascencio and the team of Jonah Bel and Rafael Trapiello, winners of the prize in 2023.

The stand will also show the piece “Luz de pasado" (Light of the Past), a spectacular work by the artist Paloma Navares, the 2024 ENAIRE Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award winner. This work, done in 1993, is part of a series that Navares developed in the early 90s that explored transhumanism, and which invites us to reflect on the biological body, artificial devices and the effects of technology on humans. Paloma Navares's exhibition Luz de la intuición (Light of Intuition), curated and produced by the ENAIRE Foundation, will open the PHotoESPAÑA 24 festival at the Royal Botanical Garden in May.

The impressive work “Luz de pasado” by artist Paloma Navares, the 2024 ENAIRE Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award winner, will be at the Foundation's stand

Paloma Navares (Burgos 1947), who created her own plastic language characterised by the use of new technologies, was the most recent winner of the ENAIRE Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, an honourable distinction that aims to recognise a whole artistic career dedicated to photography.

About ENAIRE Foundation

Is a cultural institution of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility that, in addition to managing, preserving and exhibiting the ENAIRE Collection of Contemporary Art, engages in a comprehensive annual programme of activities that focus on aeronautical art and culture. Notably, it is one of the institutions that currently provides the most support to photography through its annual prizes - which have become a benchmark for professional photographers - and by hosting exhibits.

It is the only foundation in Spain that combines the two seemingly disparate themes of art and aeronautical culture, bringing them together by undertaking a programme of activities that promote the study, research, knowledge and dissemination of aeronautical culture, integrating history and modernity to raise awareness of the world of aviation in our country.

The Naves de Gamazo are the first permanent home of the ENAIRE Collection of Contemporary Art, an example of collaboration between government agencies that was made possible thanks to the partnership and joint efforts of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, the Government of Cantabria, through the Office for Culture, Tourism and Sport, and the Port Authority of Santander, which share the operating expenses of the centre in order to ensure the present and future viability of this cultural project.

About ENAIRE

ENAIRE is the air navigation service provider in Spain.

As a company of the Ministry of Sustainable Transport and Mobility, it provides en route control services for all flights and overflights from five control centres in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Gran Canaria and Palma, as well as approach services to every airport in the country.

In addition, 46 airports receive communication, navigation and surveillance services from ENAIRE, which also maintains their air traffic control systems, and 21 of them, including the country's busiest airports, rely on its aerodrome air traffic control services.

ENAIRE is Europe's fourth largest air traffic manager and participates in the A6 Alliance, a coalition of air navigation providers responsible for over 80% of European air traffic, and which is seeking to modernise the air traffic management system. It is also a member of other international alliances promoting the Single European sky, such as SESAR Joint Undertaking, SESAR Deployment Manager, iTEC, CANSO and ICAO.

ENAIRE, as the responsible agency identified by the Ministry of Sustainable Transport and Mobility to implement the U-Space system in Spain, will, through its digital platform, provide the Common Information Services (CIS), which are essential to facilitate U-space services to drones and Urban Air Mobility in cooperation with local air traffic services, so that all types of aircraft can fly safely in the same airspace.

ENAIRE has received the highest score in Europe on the aviation safety key performance indicator for four years in a row. It has also been awarded the EFQM 500 Seal for its safe, efficient, innovative and sustainable management of air navigation services.