AVELINO SALA

AVELINO SALA - Hope

Technique: preserved moss, wood in methacrylate box

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

 

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