CITIZENS
"Citizens" is the natural consequence of the "Callejeando" series that I have been working on for the last few years. It should be noted that each of them does not have a clear start and end date, as they coexist, complement each other and evolve together.
If "Callejeando" is a look to the outside, based on how everything that surrounds us influences us and conditions who we are (urban art, advertising, fashion, music, TV, etc.). The "Citizens" series is an inward look, much more reflective and intimate about what happens around us. In these works, I introduce within these "citizens", all those experiences and impulses that place us in front of the loneliness of the individual, which I represent with the absence of color around the central character of each work.
In these figures we can see ourselves represented in our day to day life as each of these "citizens" moves between a duality of ideas and actions that lead him to consider whether to do what his ethics ask him or to lean towards what society demands of him. Therefore, in these figures we can find details of what makes us human (T'estime, besa'm, love, mare....), on the other hand we can find other signs of what makes us monsters and predators (money, $, €, disgust...).
Thus, we are faced with an individual trapped in a society of unipensadores in which it is difficult to get out of the established and what society expects of him.
These collections have been exhibited in Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Madrid, Rome, New York, Basel, Paris, London and Ningbo (China).
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