Image: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
A recent post from Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía highlights the return of images from ‘Hotel’, a work by Zulueta that turns to the Spanish capital during the final years of the dictatorship. The museum’s notice presents the material in relation to Jota’s project ‘Plena pausa’, which revisits the earlier images decades after they were made.
According to the post, ‘Hotel’ directs its camera toward Madrid’s urban landscape, treating the city not simply as a setting but as a stage for tension, repression and violence. The description places the work within a period when the city’s streets and built environment were marked by political conflict and state control.
The later project by Jota is described as recovering these images as part of ‘Plena pausa’. The available announcement does not identify the full names of either Zulueta or Jota, and it does not specify the medium, production date or precise form of the original ‘Hotel’ work beyond its use of a camera and images.
The Museo Reina Sofía shared the material on September 2, 2026, through a post featuring video. The notice does not announce an exhibition, screening or public programme, and it provides no venue or event dates for ‘Plena pausa’. It instead offers a brief connection between Zulueta’s depiction of Madrid under dictatorship and Jota’s later act of revisiting that visual material.
No further information was provided in the announcement about the scope of Jota’s project, the number of images involved or how the recovered material is presented. The source identifies ‘Hotel’ as a work focused on the city’s atmosphere of repression and violence, and ‘Plena pausa’ as the project through which Jota returned to those images.
