6 April – 15 May, 2016
Room Philip West. First Floor
The exhibition Philip West. Mistaken Itineraries, curated by Eduardo Valiña, features works in different formats that show how Philip West worked with the concept of territory. This would become a reiterative theme as a whole in a good number of works.
Space is directly related to the idea of itinerary which reflects to a certain extent the lifetime wanderings of an artist that depicts himself in the idea of journey, as a metaphor of his premature death.
The body is presented as the medium of an almost-tattooed path, in which the veins serve as channels along which life, and even death itself, circulates. There thus arises a confrontation or conflict involving a fight to regain lost strength.
We are faced with a trip to an imaginary city, West’s own life course, his body, which we have to cross through storms of frogs which descend from the heavens after a meteorite falls down, in a continuous showing, as if it were a film.
After this trip, all that is left is the memory of having been at a dance with new ties, like souvenirs of personal experiences; however, they leave a blank space in order to continue devouring every hour and every day, before finding the final exit of an urban itinerary which inevitably leads us to emptiness.
