PROXY HEROESThis series attempts to give visual form to the confusion caused by the current state of the world, using allegory and other codes of representation inspired by history painting and its subgenre, mythological painting.The flow of information that saturates us with contradictory images and stories, instead of dispersing the fog that obscures reality, ends up burying any attempt to grasp it in an avalanche of unrelated fragments. In this context, the figure of the hero becomes ambiguous. The line between hero and villain is sometimes drawn by circumstances that no one has chosen, leading to role reversals or to the overlapping of the two categories in the same person. In a sense, we all act as proxies: it is impossible to discern to what extent the desires and beliefs that guide our actions are motivated by external forces, perhaps contrary to our own interests. The protagonists of this paintings are tragicomic, easily malleable anti-heroes who unfold in twilight environments, surrounded by uncertain infrastructures, abstract elements and psychedelic blind spots. Each work seems to capture a significant event whose meaning eludes us, like a vivid dream with an infinite number of interpretations. When such a reverie is reproduced in the waking state, when a delusion moves from the personal to the social and begins to be shared massively, however absurd it may have seemed to us at first, it can have more than tangible consequences in reality. Certain collective hallucinations, and the images that help spread them, have played as prominent a role in human history as fossil fuels or our instinct for self-preservation. |
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| Blind Supporters 2023 / 130 x 195 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
Unprecedented Request 2023 / 162 x 130 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
Reluctant Saboteur 2022 / 116 x 89 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
Supply Chain Raider 2023 / 116 x 89 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
Victims of Some Elastic Truth 2022 / 125 x 174 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
Installation View EAC 2024 / Museo de la Universidad, Alicante / 2024 |
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| Involuntary Grove 2023 / 41 x 35 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
Multipolar Summit 2023 / 41 x 55 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
Imported Traditions 2023 / 55 x 46 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
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| Cozy Overthinker 2023 / 100 x 81 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
A Persistent Cloud 2023 / 97 x 116 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
Free Fall 2024 / 100 x 81 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |
A Good Day to Defect 2024 / 130 x 162 cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas |