STATEMENTIn recent years I have been developing a particular narrative and visual language based largely on drawing and formal resources typical in fields like architecture, children's or textbook illustrations, comics, heraldry and political propaganda. A number of recurring topics appear once and again all across my work: the contradictions between theory and practice, the decisive influence of abstract ideas on concrete processes of social transformation, the relations of power with the historical past and how this is reinterpreted to legitimize the present.I conceive my pieces as handmade replicas of cultural products from future or paralell societies. By means of images, objects and text, fictional sociopolitical scenarios are posed, ranging from plausible to preposterous, located at some point between the Utopian and the dystopian. The imagined realities are not necessarily more desirable than the one we live in, however all of them somehow put into question the idea of historical determinism and other dogmas of our time. Through distorting lenses of different colours and thicknesses we contemplate disturbing versions of our own world in which the mechanisms that keep things running, normally hidden under layers of culture and civilization, are laid bare. SPANISH VERSION
Time-Travel Machine Drawings. Interview with Francesc Ruiz. A*DESK, 2022 (SP/CAT/EN) |
