"Whoever leaves home has already returned" is a project that explores the sense of belonging and appropriation of a place during displacement. It consists of the collaboration of two prominent artists: Javier Bravo de Rueda (Callao, Peru, 1989 - resident in Bilbao) and María García Ibáñez (Madrid, 1978 - resident in Mexico City).

The project addresses the notion of "dwelling" from various perspectives. Travel and distance reveal the idea of ​​home, reflecting a constant search for elemental structures that refer to a nomadic body. The artists dialogue with the space they inhabit, marking their own routes that are traced during the trip. 

In María's works, lines solidify through clay, turning the act of drawing into an exercise in demarcation. The installation acts as a drawing that maps space, using ceramic pieces as vital traces full of geographical potential.

For his part, Javier examines the phenomena produced by multiculturalism and material and immaterial accumulation. His work delves into cultural syncretism and the constant search for identity in an increasingly hybrid world. 

The project proposes a look in two directions: from Latin America to Europe and vice versa, as well as from Europe to Latin America, generating a multicultural dialogue and a clash of perspectives.

Constant research, both theoretical and technical, of new materials is fundamental in the practice of both artists.