ANIMAL

February 2015

In this exhibition "Animal", the Spanish urban artist Gonzalo Borondo aimed to explore the conflict between our innate animal instincts and our present lives, which are coated with the dependence of technology and our fear for what is unknown. The show took place in London Newcastle Project Space in Shoreditch, and opened to visitors from the 5th through the 26th of February 2015.

Borondo’s work is poetic and evoking, inciting the public to pause and reflect on their own mortality—their memento mori—leaving all vanities and mass-media-influenced notions behind. “The biggest part of my work [is to] try to reflect our dramatic nature. I use the universal body-language to show the issues of the human condition.” With this in mind, the artist will take us through eight thematic spaces that include video installations and painting animations in collaboration with Carmen Maín (Spain), and sculpture installations, created together with Edoardo Tresoldi (Italy) and Despina Charitonidi (Greece).