David Ferrando Giraut
21 April 2014 – 20 June 2014
David Ferrando Giraut (Negreira, A Coruña, 1978) lives and works in Gijón. He is a graduate in Fine Arts from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and MFA in Fine Arts from the Goldsmiths College. In 2010 he was one of the eight video-artists selected for the LUX Associate Artists Programme in London.
His work, focused mainly in video, sound and installation, combines several conceptual threads, such as the hybridation of natural elements, technology and sociopolitical organisation and how it has been managed through history; the tensions between representation and represented reality; the aesthetic experience as cognitive tool. It calls into question the modern concept of temporality, proposing a search for continuity through notions such as transversality, Proustian reminiscence, the ruin, and its parallelisms with audiovisual recording. His recent works show an interest for the persistence of pyramidal social structures and the current mismatch between technological development and political involution, which seems to lead us towards some kind of post-cybernetic neo-medievalism.
Some of his most recent exhibitions are the following: Luminous Flux, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (2014); ARCOmadrid 2014, Galería Bacelos; IndieLisboa14, Festival Internacional de Cine Independente; Veraneantes, MARCO, Vigo (2013-14); It´s a Place of Force” en REMAP4, Athens (2013) and MACO 2013, Mexico, Galería Bacelos; ARCOmadrid 2013, Galería Bacelos; Cristalino, Galería Bacelos, Madrid and Vigo (2012); 41 International Film Festival Rotterdam (2012); Swollen Jungle, Union Gallery, London (2012); The Fanstasist, MACUF, A Coruña (2011); Topophobia, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, The Bluecoat, Liverpool and Spacex, Exeter (2011-2012); Against Gravity, ICA, Londres (2010); Journeys End in Lovers Meetings, Galería Visor (2010), Valencia and 10/12, Brussels (2011); Time Capsules, The Gallery Soho, London (2011); Everything is Out There, part of Inéditos 2010, La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Between a Hole and a Home, James Taylor Gallery, Londres (2010); Strange Things Are Hapening, ASPEX, Portsmouth (2009); or Situación, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (2008).
Project in residence
Culto Solar
David Ferrando project produces ‘Culto Solar’, winner of the grant DKV Seguros-Álvarez Margaride
Culto Solar, by the artist David Ferrando (Negreira, A Coruña, 1978), has been selected as the winning project of the DKV Seguros – Álvarez Margaride Production Grant, announced jointly by the insurance company and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial de Gijón. David Ferrando will develop his project during an two-month art residency at Plataforma 0. Centro de Producción de LABoral, as a previous step to its presentation to the public from June 21 to September 14 of this year.
Culto Solar is a video installation that consists of a high-definition projection on a free-standing screen, a large format drawing occupying a good part of the floor of the exhibition area, a round showcase, as if it were an altar, with several elements inside, and a piece of video for monitor related with sculpture.
David Ferrando, whose art work shows his interest in the hybridisation of cosmic elements, technology and socio-political organisation, and how it has been managed in different moments of history. The starting point for Culto Solar is the fact that from different perspectives we can see the persistence of pyramidal structures of power, run by elites that have used diverse narratives along the centuries to legitimise their mediator role between nature and society. In this regard, the artist is very interested in “how the current mismatch between technological development and political involution seems to take us towards some kind of post-cybernetic neo-medievalism”.
