Desalojar el rostro. Bernardí Roig

Miguel Marcos Gallery presents Desalojar el rostro, an exhibition by Bernardí Roig (1965) showcasing a selection of his recent works—sculptures, paintings, drawings, and an audiovisual piece. These pieces draw the viewer’s gaze into the absorbing depths of black, ensnaring the eyes in the electric jolt of fluorescent light.

The common root of these images is the experience of the body. The works are expanded drawings that convey a drive reflecting on painting as defeat and on the need to interpret the representation of the body’s transience in order to situate it within a spatial dramaturgy. They constitute the synthesis of a multifaceted universe, a baroqueness of elaborate metaphors which, through an exaggerated narrative, reveals a range of obsessions and fixations that confront the individual’s inability to communicate in the face of a destiny doomed to extinction.

Desalojar el rostro is about liberating it from the tyranny of time and its furrows, a way of expressing the emptying of features and accumulated attributes in a face to produce a negotiated identity and, in doing so, confront our own bundle of shadows.

Bernardí Roig’s work, embracing the contradictions inherited from minimalism, uses space as raw material in which to place the figure—a figure that aligns with its hidden truth and, pierced by an excess of light, speaks to us of a memory that has calcified over time, erasing the trembling edges of its representation.