Volk Gallery is proud to present the work of Nazaret Ranea. Each Volk artist is given a size limit and budget and left to their own devices. With this brief, Ranea exhibits My Men and My Women - twin zines of poetry, collage, and confessions. They act as archives of human echoes: a lover dissolving like “soft clay gnomes” in rain, an aunt dissected in a cannibalistic fantasy, a mother’s heartbeat beneath a child’s ear. Each poem is a relic, distilling fleeting encounters into universal truths about love, loss, and the quiet violence of memory.
Artist's Statement
Nazaret Ranea (b. 1999, Málaga) is a Spanish poet and zine maker based in Edinburgh, crafting visceral snapshots of the people who shape us. A Next Generation Young Makar and editor of For Those Who Tend the Soil (Scottish Poetry Library), Nazaret’s work thrums with duality—nostalgia for rural Spain clashes with Edinburgh’s winds, tenderness bleeds into rage. Her zines, tactile as “grains of rice” in a lover’s hair, democratise art through Volk Gallery’s vending machine, transforming private ache into communal currency. Here, Dundee inherits a fractured self-portrait: mothers, ghosts, and carnival performers in needle-heeled shoes—who etch themselves into our bones.
Exhibition Dates
April 5th 2025 - May 3rd 2025
April 5th 2025 - May 3rd 2025
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