Wheels, Pluriyuca. 2019
Rafael Pérez Evans. Spanish – Welsh (b. Málaga 1983)
Lives and works in London. He received a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University. His work has been exhibited internationally with recent exhibitions including solo at Nogueras Blanchard (Barcelona), Queens C. (Marrakesh) & Abierto Theredoom (Madrid), two man shows at Despina (Rio de Janeiro) and Yusto Giner Gallery (Marbella), group exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (Taiwan), Matadero (Madrid), Museum of Modern Art Karlsruhe (Germany) & Hangar (Barcelona). He has completed residencies in C3A (Cordoba), Hangar (Barcelona), Matadero (Madrid), Red Studios (São Paulo) & Sassafrass (USA) and is currently a New contemporaries 2019 recipient as well as ‘A Secas’ recipient from C.A.A.C Museum (Seville).
Pérez Evans installations function as tools for exploring questions around knowledge systems, ethnographies and ideas around progress. Through his inventive use of readymades, live materials and audience participation, Evans plays with the language of magic to conjure, redigest and expel stories back into news circulation. With this occupying a territory where poetic disorientations, can reflect us back ideas around the rural, the leftovers of coloniality and the forces of alterity.
Work Credit:
Title: Wheels, Pluriyuca. 2019 @leedsartgallery part of @newcontemporaries
Yams, mirrors, metal trolleys, cardboard, celophane plastic
146cm x 98cm & 170cm x 130cm
Artist portrait photo by: Goswin Schwendinger