José Davila |  Lavori scelti

My work platform has been extremely related to place and space. I use conceptual strategies from which I produce a blurring of the functionality of the spaces I develop the work in and of the materials I work with.

Life without buildings
2005
cm 127 x 189
Lambda print

Create
2005
cm 50 x 66
Inkjet on cotton paper

I focus in the membrane produced by this blurring, at the point in which the elements get trapped. This creates a kind of interference in which functions and meanings block each other. The signifier without a signified subverts the instrumental value of the object and image as communication. It does not make sense, yet this non-sense is what allows new meanings to emerge.

Studies for future Buildings
2005
Foto
cm 30 x 40
Lambda print

Face behind the face
Musée d'art moderne di Saint-Etienne, 2005

Untitled
2005
scala con palloni

My work has been frequently produced outside of my studio or through contractors; it is related to a studio-less practice regarding traditional notions of what an artist's studio is. The studio is a container of my modus operandi and of myself. It operates like an office, with a computer, a telephone, books, music and the yellow pages.

Garbage Column
2005
Biennale di Praga

Madrid Abierto
Intervención de la fachada de la Casa de América
2005

Flying City
2008
MDF, nylon cable, flourescent tube

I believe that art must be a vehicle for ideas. My intention or goal is to launch people's mind experience.

Jose Dávila