El polilla - Pansies
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The expression 'Pansy' (in English the name of the flower of thought) was used at the beginning of the 20th century to refer to homosexuals, especially those more 'effeminate' with a clearly pejorative intention. The redefinition of expressions of hate like these is claimed in this 'camp' installation, which is reproduced on the walls in infinite formal possibilities as a tribute to those who were called 'pansies'.
1969 Madrid, Spain
David Trullo (Madrid, 1969) Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, 1993.
He has had numerous individual and collective exhibitions in commercial galleries, museums and art centers in Europe and America since 1992 such as Tabacalera, Madrid (2018), TEA Tenerife (2016), Córdoba Photography Biennial (2015), CACT Ticino, Switzerland ( 2013), Leslie Lohman Foundation, New York (2012), Instituto Cervantes, Palermo/Berlin (2011), Schwules Museum, Berlin (2011), Kubo Kutxa, San Sebastián (2011), Academia de San Carlos, Mexico (2010), Hardcore Gallery, Miami (2009), CDAN Huesca, (2008), Museo Universidade Sao Paulo (2008), Finnish Photography Triennial (2005).
He has participated in fairs and festivals such as ARCO, Estampa and PhotoEspaña in Madrid, Art Miami and The Armory Show in the USA. He has received awards such as the Ibiza Biennial and the Magrama for photography, and artist-in-residence grants at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and the Karl Hofer Society, Universität der Kunste, Berlin. Among his latest individual exhibitions, the highlights are 'Coined' at the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, 2016 and 'Queer Cabinet' at the Museo de Artes Decorativas, 2017, Madrid.
He has curated numerous exhibitions for public and private entities, as well as worked in cultural coordination and management at festivals, events, and art galleries.
His work focuses mainly on iconography and the different levels or contexts of the image and its processes of reproduction, representation and distribution, around the reinterpretation, reconstruction, alteration and composition of dialogues and confrontations on different aspects of society. contemporary attached to already existing iconographies, giving new meaning to texts, contexts and pretexts. His gaze is directed especially to issues of gender representation.
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