Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Manifesta 15 Barcelona took place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding cities ot its metropolitan region.
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Fernando Sánchez Castillo, ES
The Ictíneo and other political figures, 2024 © Fernando Sánchez Castillo. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo studied Fine Arts in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense Madrid and Philosophy in the Institute of Contemporary Aesthetics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He received a post-diploma from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris and was a resident at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He has previously served as part of the PIMPA (Memory, Politics and Art Practices) Research Team at the United Nations in Geneva.
Sánchez Castillo develops a multi-angle critique of the monumental discourse, disarticulates its agencies of power and representation. His work is an attempt to rewrite historical accounts or at least to make us more aware of history’s complexities and traces, and to show that history is constructed from many positions of authority.