The work of Erick Beltrán is a constant investigation and reflection about the structural mechanisms of thought systems, specifically the power relationship that exists between the editing process and constructions of discourse. From diagrams, information gathering, archives, insertions in the media, he approaches the way in which they are defined, valued, ordered, classified, selected, reproduced and distributed images to create political, economic and cultural discourses in contemporary society.
Erick Beltran
Mexico City, Mexico, 1974. Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Declaration of War Against the World: Fundamental Postulates | Installation view
Inexistencia de la Voluntad | Print on cotton paper | 35.24 x 32.87 inches | 2006-2011
«Beltrán overturns his questions in the creation of systems that attempt to catalog a given universe and of apparently random collections of elements united by common factors.»
The artist reproduces and distributes images to create political, economic and cultural discourses in contemporary society. Through an organic and changing production process. Beltrán overturns his questions in the creation of systems that attempt to catalog a given universe and of apparently random collections of elements united by common factors.
Beltrán overturns his questions in the creation of both systems and diagrams, such is the case of works such as the Calculum series, which resembles a curio cabinet that brings together in text and object images pieces found by Beltrán; or from the book Nothing of the Truth, the result of the compilation of a series of lies.
Erick Beltrán has been selected to participate in internationally prestigious residencies such as Kadist Foundation, San Francisco (2015), Gasworks, London (2010) and Villa Arson, Nice (2010).
His work has been individually exhibited in institutions such as: Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City (2021), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo La Tertulia, Cali (2017) New Museum, NYC (2014) or Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2014). He has also participated in group exhibitions and biennials such as: the Liverpool Biennial (2021), Centro Botin in Santander (2019), Yinchuan Biennial (2018), among others.
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