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Salt studies

2021

Salt studies

2021

This project begins with a reflection on the mobility restrictions in Spain during the year 2020. The works are born as an artistic solution to the lack of freedom to move around the territory, in this case, national (although we can extend it to the local and international condition). As a citizen, one must be clear about where and when one can and cannot go, rules that before could be limited to private spaces and now have been extended to a space (the peninsula, for example) that is supposed to be public (even more rules of behaviour are assimilated in this environment, in addition to those we already knew).

When dealing with a common situation, I resort to a common element or material for society, which is salt, with the intention that whatever the resulting work is, it will have a social and, if possible, participatory condition. I choose salt and create my own symbol with it, also using its historical value. I investigate salt as salarium, the revolts over the rise in taxes on salt, the throwing of salt on the city and land of Carthage so that nothing else would grow, salt as a magical and healing element. Salt has been a good and an evil, this is the dialogue and confrontation that I want to reflect in order to intervene different locations.

Likewise, despite exposing this critique of some of the current conditions, the project’s main interest is reflection and self-reflection on the situation. For this reason, salt is presented as a symbol that I appropriate and as a material that has weight on its own, that spreads or piles up in space and behaves freely.

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EXHIBITIONS

2024
As 7 e 7, Solaina Galería. Museo Provincial de Lugo (ES)

2023
Poetry Light and Drawing / Los limones absortos. Syracuse, New York (US)

2022
Tribunal. Pazo de Mariñán, A Coruña (ES)

2021
Masters Printmaking 2021. KoMASK Royal Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. Antwerp (BE)
Feliz Navidad. Ateneo. (ES)
¿Qué nos hace humanos? (What makes us humans?). Sesnon Art Gallery (CA, US)

2020
I Jornada Internacional en Arte Sostenible, JIAS
Salvemos la Navidad. Solaina Galería, Lugo (ES)
Leña Verde. Museo Etnolóxico, Ribadavia (ES)

2019
Morriña. Banca Ética, Brescia (IT)
Edición II Premio Talento Artístico ACF. Galería Jorge Alcolea, Madrid (ES) Primer premio
Exposición do final e do comezo. Pazo da Cultura de Pontevedra, Pontevedra (ES)
Novos Valores 2019. Museo de Pontevedra, Pontevedra (ES)
Conciertos y performances en sintonía. Conservatorio superior de Vigo (ES)
Idus Martis. Casa do Matadoiro, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
Openlab OL35. Facultade Belas Artes, Pontevedra (ES)
El gran pintxeo. Barakaldo, Pontevedra (ES)

AWARDS

2019
First position. Edición II Premio talento artístico Ahorro Corporación
Financiera. Madrid

ARTS RESIDENCIES

2022
Lab Careixa (ES)

2020
X Encontro de Artistas Novos, EAN10. Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela (ES)