Biography
David Palacios belong to a generation of young artists whose proposals relate to the newest languages. His work deals with the deconstruction of the work of art and the multiple fields related to this notion. Palacios also carries out an intertextual analysis of the work as a product and the context that sponsors it, employing institutional connections of all sorts. Using various indicators, comparative charts, percentile analysis and statistical diagrams, the artists shows the complexity of these relationships. In many cases, he alludes to corrupted associations that transform the work into a mere symbol destined for commercialization and marking. Palacios has participated with other artists in occasional action groups, and has show his work as installations and in traditional formats.
Art Report, is the name of the most recent project which I have been developing. The idea is to create a kind of visual news agency which, by using the tools of art (in any of its forms or mediums), explains and illustrates to the public issues concerning our social reality. These issues fall into a number of different categories, including global economics, international investment, oil prices, spending on military defence, social issues, poverty levels.
The idea of this multi-disciplinary experience is to reference the different parts of the arts ecology, such as galleries, museums, exhibitions or events, as a geographical area which underlies the way we live. Just like a work of art, we can understand and respond to these issues as both a social report which reveals itself to the viewer and as a subject of society in itself. Art, Report also sends reports by using all of today’s available channels of communication, such as the classic fax, email, or the regular post, and in doing so systematically enacts the functions of a so-called visual news agency.
