Avelino Sala

His work as an artist has led him to question cultural and social reality from a late-romantic perspective, with a critical and uncomfortable gaze, in a continuous exploration of the social imaginary and trying to put his finger on the wound to check the power of art as a generator of spaces for experimentation capable of recreating new worlds.

His projects exploit the ability of art to generate spaces for experimentation in order to create new realities. Sala is one of the Spanish references of art as political resistance. In his production there is a sort of poetics that contains a reflection on the state powers and the control they exercise. His forceful aesthetic adds strength to a necessary and powerful statement in areas such as migration, contemporary dislocation, the environmental crisis and the paradoxes of capitalism.

Unwritten feminist subversive library This project is linked to both sculpture and resistance and is part of a larger project called "Books for an unwritten history." Through the use of books, of an object that is a transmitter of knowledge, the end is changed and one works with them in an objective way, that is, the book loses its original function but at the same time gains another.

The title of the book, which is taken from the banners of the 8M demonstrations throughout the world, is engraved on the cover. Then the object is painted in different purple pantones using a gradient that functions as a monochrome that become a sculpture that represents the struggle of women for equality.

The 8M series extracts the slogans of the 8M demonstrations around the world, recovering them to propose these novels/books to be written at a time when changes are taking place, but also at a time when it is necessary to give visibility to the claims from the particular space of Art, a place where freedom and the ability to communicate still exist.

BIO

Avelino Sala ( Gijon, 1972)

Sala is an artist, curator (collective curatorial Commission) and editor (Sublime magazine). In addition, he writes in media such as Artishock or A desk. In 2001 he obtained his Bachelor in Arts (BA, Hons degree) in Critical Art Practice at the University of Brighton.

His work has been presented in various international exhibitions, among the latest: (2013 S.O.S) Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, (An Essay on culture 2013), NCCA, Moscow, (Distopia:right now) 2012 Museum marble of Carrara, (Funeral Pyre 2012) Matadero, Madrid, (Cacotopia 2011), First Screen, La Pedrera (AUTRUI 2011) Centre Dart Le Lait Grahulet, France, (Block House 2011), (Galeria Raquel Ponce, ARTIUM (stop! 2010), Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, (Fatherland or Morte! 2010), Virgil de Voldere gallery, New York, (hostile 2009), National Museum of art Sofia (International Reencontres, 2009), Queen X Bienal de la Habana, (Comunicacionismos, 2009), A Foundation, London (Off the Street, 2009), Insert Coin, Spanish Young Art, October Contemporary, Hong Kong 2009) or Tina B Biennale Prague, (Small Revolutions 2008) or The Promised Land (Chelsea Art Museum, 2008). Generation 2003 by CajaMadrid award. Sponsored among others by Hangar and Bilbao art. In 2010 was a fellow of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome and the centro de arte Le Lait of Albi in France.

He has participated in biennials such as: the Puebla Video Art Biennial, in Mexico (2014); the Biennial of the Central American Isthmus of Guatemala (2014); the Biennial of the End of the World (2011); VideoZone. V Biennial of Video Art of Tel Aviv (2010); Anámnesis, Encounter between two seas (Valencia Biennial, 2007); Nightcomers, 10 Istanbul Biennial (Collateral 2007); at the Caracas Fire Biennial (2006) and at the Poles Apar t / Poles Together project, 51st Venice Biennale (Collateral 2005), among others.