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The Spanish artist Jorge Peris (Alzira, Valencia 1969) is one of the most interesting of his generation, recently attracting the attention of critics at an international level. He studied in Valencia. Now he lives and works in Madrid.
Fascinated and seduced by space and its multiple dimensions (physical, psychological and phenomenological) Jorge Peris explores the environment that surrounds us almost as if it were a living thing, investigating the thousands of possibilities for changing and metamorphosing it. He does this by subverting spatial coordinates through violent acts of transformation, aggression and corrosion, which border on destruction. By doing so, he gives life to an alchemic field where spectators finds themselves disorientated and deprived of reference points. Peris often transforms the exhibition space into a sort of archaeological site that brings the lives of previous spaces to the surface; at the same time he throws open the space onto a sort of memory of the future, as if the artist were imagining a cataclysm that could reduce everything to ruins.
The subsenses of the concept of dimension and relative possibilities at work in his pieces invite us to experiment with these experiences as an ideal and practicable aptitude. By producing work where a non-place becomes a lost place that has somehow been recovered par excellence, whose construction grows from the constant assertion of opposites within the distance that separates them, the artist undermines our ability to discern by forcing us into a new situation and a new state of things.
Peris often works by subtraction, triggering off a dizzying process of dislocation so typical of his artistic practices. The violence of his gestures almost seems to be trying to match the energy in the natural physical laws that control the cosmos. The artist treats the space that surrounds us as a metaphor for our organism: plaster, like human skin, is only a superficial outer layer beneath which infinite stories and emotive tensions are contained. Space changes exactly as if it were a body, growing old as it is altered by external agents. It also finds itself affected by unexpected strange rashes and infections.
Jorge Peris has had a number of one-man shows in Italy and abroad, including Marte in Gaia e Cosimo, Galleria Zero, Milan (2007); Diamante, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Egitto in Luigi, MAN, Nuoro; and Waiting for the Blackout, Sprovieri Gallery, London (2004). He also took part in T1 La sindrome di Pantagruel, Triennale Torino, Turin (2005).
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