AVELINO SALA

AVELINO SALA - Hope

Técnica: preserved moss, wood in metacrylate box

Biografía del Artista: His work as an artist has led him to question cultural and social reality with a critical and uncomfortable gaze in a continuous exploration of the social and political imaginary. His projects exploit the capacity of art to generate spaces for experimentation that give rise to new realities. Sala is one of the Spanish references of art as political resistance. His production contains a kind of poetics that contains a reflection on state powers and the control they exercise. Her forceful aesthetic adds strength to a discourse that is as necessary as it is powerful. Since the 2000s, Sala has worked in the global context of contemporary art, exhibiting and participating in Biennials and institutions such as the Caracas Fire Biennial (2006), VideoZone V Tel Aviv Video Art Biennial (2010), Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007), Biennial of the End of the World (2011), Central American Isthmus Biennial of Guatemala (2014) or the South Biennial, Together Apart (2019). Her work is presented in 2020 in a large project at the Centre del Carmen in Valencia, where the themes she has been working on for years are developed: migrations, contemporary dislocation, the environmental crisis and the paradoxes of capitalism. Her work has been present in numerous exhibitions, both national and international.

The Still Life series, which Sala has been working on for several years, maintains the idea of ​​current criticism linked to the History of Art. The still life, a classic theme of 17th century art, is the starting point for working with moss and preserved plants, which seem alive but are dead, and from there generating sculptures, still lifes of the 21st century, as a call to attention about environmental collapse. TIME, LIFE, HOPE, but also his FUTURE and DESTINY, from the same series, which continues to develop.