Fran Meana (Avilés, 1982)

Graduated in Fine Art from the University of Vigo. He currently lives in Rotterdam having obtained a Master’s at the Piet Zwart Institute. His work investigates the relations between forms of production and the construction of the imaginary. He habitually starts from recent events to which he adds new information, fictional elements or deliberately wrong readings in order to create new objects, images or situations. He has participated in exhibitions such as A Map of Misreading, TENT, Rotterdam; Somewhere Else, Nogueras-Blanchard, Barcelona; Antes que todo [Before Everything], CA2M, Móstoles; Basado en hechos reales [Based on Real Events], ARTIUM, Vitoria; Everything is out there, La Casa Encendida, Madrid; and Delimitations, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel. His work is part of the collections of ARTIUM, CGAC and the NOMAS Foundation.