Son[i]a #213
Ignacio Uriarte
Ignacio Uriarte is always associated with the anecdote of his past as an office worker, and of how, when he started working as an artist, he kept using the same gestures, materials, and skills as in his previous life. In his work, which is almost performative even though it is usually expressed in the form of objects, we find note pads, Excel sheets, filing cabinets, pens, typewriters, and pencils that evoke sixties Conceptual art and Minimalism and update them for the present from the confines of a twentieth century office cubicle. But beyond the easy anecdote, his extensive body of work uses seriousness and a sense of humour in equal measure to reflect on a diversity of topics ranging from order and popular culture to time.
To coincide with his participation in the exhibition ‘Species of Spaces’ with three new murals on paper, SON[I]A talks to Ignacio Uriarte about his daily routine as an artist, the demise of the physical office, the persistence of his imaginary, and about procrastination and over-compliance with rules as two different forms of resistance to imposed efficiency and productivity.
Luz Broto
Luz Broto talks about invisible forces, the space of art, negotiation, the visualization of processes, the poetics of politics, the art of the void, and her exquisite capacity to stick her nose where it doesn’t belong.
Ignasi Aballí
From obsessive classifications to anti-paintings, from a constant probing of the role of the spectator to imperceptible modifications, Ignasi Aballí’s work is both hermetic and accessible. A delicate balance between concept and form that draws inspiration from everyday life, literature and film in order to talk about absences, filters, fictions and limits.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Ignacio Uriarte that we were unable to include the first time around.
Serafín Álvarez
Serafín Álvarez talks about video games, the origins of his fixation on corridors as a fetish, and the use of digital media in contemporary art.