Winner of Generacion 2012 Prize, Spain.
Exhibited at La Casa Encendida, and Espai Cultural, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain.
Exhibited at The Noise of Bubbles – Red Bull Music Academy/ MataderoMadrid. Curated by Pensart A.C.
Exhibited at JustMadrid Art Fair 2011, Spain.
“ (…) Fresneda is interested in extending the possibilities of our thinking to the outermost bounds of the phenomenal world, where (as a matter of fact) we continue to travel primarily in our imagination; even in this century we are not much further along in this respect than the civilizations whose architecture he merges with space ships in the Future Studies series.
The works from this series project our viewpoint into the future, because we know that the Atomium sculpture in Brussels and the Eiffel tower in Paris are still standing, although in his renderings we see them destroyed and then remodeled and reused. Through this series of works, we understand that every present is also the past of a future.
Fresneda shifts us, the viewers, from our time and space into the future. It is known that if we want to understand something better, we have to estrange the point of view and somehow try to step out of space and time. Good art pulls the rug out from under the viewer, shaking the ground he stands on, from which things looked well ordered and almost unchangeable. Javier has been doing well in unsettling our reality thus far.”
—Miran Mohar, 2012.
Translated by Jasna Hrastnik.
