Conversación I [Conversation I] (2009)
Ceramic sculpture
Variable dimensions
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 169
This work reflects on the world of art, with the figure of the artist taken as the starting point. The role of the artist is centre stage throughout the series; his image is repeated and unfolds in the photographs and objects that capture different aspects of the art world. The author does not adopt external roles – as occurs in the work of other artists – but rather assumes the many-sided nature of any identity, showing different facets of a personal universe in conflict with an already defined structure; his work approaches the conflicts and complex relations between an artist and their own work, the objective and its impact – their commitment – and the art world in which they are forced to work. Yet these reflections can be perfectly extrapolated to a society in which the policies of appearance and power games underpin our usual framework.