AVELINO SALA

AVELINO SALA - Ecotopias series

Técnica: Laser cut books, sealed and chrome, measure variables.

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 ecotopias series (2022) maintains the format of other series of pieces such as “books for an unwritten history” but with the particularity that in this case the novels are already written. There is little left to write, if before the piece focused on the slogans of Fridays for Future, here, in Ecotopias it focuses on dystopian novels that are focused on the collapse of the environment, of our planet. We want utopia and yet we have long since launched ourselves into a race for self-destruction, so the sculpture focuses on all these novels and generates here a kind of “library of disaster” with a gradient of colors in green, (the color of the whitening of ecological issues is green), a visual trompe l'oeil about how we are situated on the edge of the abyss or directly in it.