X -5-75 (2021)
Color video
2’22”
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2021.497.1
X- 5-75 is a portrait and part of the design of a silver bracelet made to measure for the subject. The video is conceived as a mould: a piece, or set of pieces, hollow on the inside but with the details and external imprints of the body it is intended to hold.
The name ‘Miguel’ and the signs ‘X-5-75’ are engraved in the centre of the bracelet. These elements refer to the possibility of a body that asserts itself through this element and its repetition. These elements point to a sign open to being filled, like the bracelet holding an arm. Something susceptible to being, to happening. Empty structures, ellipses and shapes whose imagery points indefinitely towards multiple possibilities.
Miguel Alejos (Valencia, 1995). Graduate in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and Master’s Degree in Art Research and Creation from the UPV/EHU. He has received grants and awards from organisations such as INJUVE, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Bilbaoarte Foundation, the Huarte Centre, the Jiser Association, the XXIII Mostra Art Públic Universitat de València Award and the Gas Natural Fenosa Museum of Contemporary Art. He has held solo exhibitions such as Espacio de Aproximación at the Montehermoso Cultural Centre and Luz que atraviesa at Forma. Espais d’art Contemporani Balaguer. Group exhibitions at Galería CarrerasMugica, Archivo Comarcal de Urgel, Elbirou Gallery Tunis, Hybrid Fair Madrid, UMPRUM Prague, FIG Bilbao and the ABC Museum Madrid. Since 2022, he has also been working alongside Rocío Agudo to run Brillo, a publishing project specialising in contemporary artistic proposals. He has also carried out cultural mediation and management activities such as 91 sesión Cine Ilegal at the Bulegoa z/b Bilbao space, IVAM, and the Valencian Institute of Modern Art.