Biography
My artistic practice is placed within the context of the production of commodities and the systems of attribution of value in Capitalist society.
I am intrigued by, as Stéphane Hessel calls, the growing 'commodification of the world '1, by which everything is judged in terms of commercial value and utility, and the ephemeral nature of the material that its constantly produced.
I believe that my work is about finding as much as about making.
I appropriate, gather, observe and, sometimes, transform this material - placing myself in the territory of the gleaner, the archaeologist or the curator - to test notions of value/ worthlessness, authorship/ authority and ownership.
For me, art is a fascinating field to challenge these ideas because, as Franceso Manarcorda says: ' its economic value is mainly regulated by an unpredictable and discretionary system of attribution of meaning. This is because art 's utility is not measurable or objectively determinable; its function does not produce visible outcomes'2.
The origin and source of the found material - with its previous history, meaning and attributed value - is of great importance to me and are an integral part of my pieces. I am interested in the notion of the display as an external agent that determine a different value and authorship to my works, allowing my pieces to exist as different entities at the same time.
It is a process- based work in constant transformation and growth. I conceive its exhibition at the art space as a moment in the duration of the piece, that goes on happening in time and, sometimes, in spaces outside the white cube, where the limits of its definition remain blurred.
1. Hessel, S. : ¡Indignaos! Barcelona: Destino.
2. Manacorda, F. : Take the junk and run: an applied economics to worthless objects. In : Savage. This is yours now. Lost, found and stolen works 2001-2007. Birmingham: IKON Gallery.
