Underskog

We are pleased to announce Javier Barrios’ first solo exhibition at Rod Bianco Gallery.

The universe is constantly moving. Planets disappear and others comes into existence, like our own earth once was formed from a nebula. Everything we know, all that surrounds us, is a product from space.

Human exploration of its pacing in the universe is concurrent with some of its most characteristic traits: the need to know, to understand and to map out. The wish to bring human evolution one step further have been one of the driving forces behind modern space research. With Twilight Is Upon Me, Javier Barrios juxtaposes this modernistic optimism with apocalyptic outlooks, the physical laws of the universe and the blurry line between fiction and reality. Barrios starting point is from real space research as well as from classical science fiction. His works are manifestations of what humans have imagined, what we have learned and what we have yet to figure out. Utopian fantasies and pieces of the reality we are increasingly aware of are fused together. What humans have been able to imagine have to a large extent been controlled by available technology, which has contributed to gliding transitions between what’s fantasy and what’s real. Our ability to predict the future is very limited, and Barrios challenges the notion that there are rational ways to foresee what lies ahead. His artistic exploration of scientific studies, popular culture and history still sheds some light on certain patterns of ideas and mindsets that defines humans’ opinion of their own existence and placing in a greater whole in modern times.