Enar de Dios Rodríguez
17 May 2021 – 19 June 2021
Graduated in Translation and Interpreting from the Universidade de Vigo, Enar de Dios studied Photography at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.
His interdisciplinary work – which includes video, photography, and installation – is based on extensive research and archival material. With a central interest in the production of space, paying attention to the socio-political and environmental consequences, his work uses the reconfiguration of existing information to explore the poetic and develop its political potential.
His work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), Project Space (Melbourne), Künstlerhaus (Vienna), 45 Salón Nacional de Artistas (Bogotá), and Palazzo Strozzi (Florence), as well as at festivals such as Ars Electronica (Linz), DokuFest (Prizren) or Curtocircuíto (Santiago de Compostela).
Among the numerous grants and awards he has received are the Pixel, Bytes + Film production grant (Austrian Ministry of Culture) or the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Prize (Murphy and Cadogan Foundation). Enar has given talks and conferences at institutions such as the University of California (Berkeley) or the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, and workshops at La Térmica (Málaga) or Plataforma Laboratorio de Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología (Bogotá). She is also the founder of the Bay Area Online Exhibitions Archive, a member of the art and science project SEEC Photography, as well as the artistic association Golden Pixel Cooperative.
Project in residence
Liquid Ground is an installation that takes the ocean floor and its cartography as its axis to talk about colonialism, ecology and representation.
Even though the oceans make up 70% of the Earth, so far only a very small part of the seabed has been mapped. However, in recent years, interest in mapping these spaces has accelerated due to different economic, geopolitical and scientific interests, committed to building a “new continent” by exploiting under the sea.
liquid groundis an interdisciplinary project that investigates our relationships with the largest surface of the planet, the oceans.
The artist proposes a central video-essay piece, 8 light boxes and a brochure as a tourist map.
To carry out this project Enar de Dios will work on a 6-week residency at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. The results will be shown through an exhibition that will open to the public on June 18 and can be visited until October 31.
