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This listing describes an exhibition of Fernando Sánchez Castillo's work, primarily sculpture, which dismantles symbols of power and reveals the fragile narratives that sustain it.
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Get matched →Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Madrid, 1970) asserts that “art is a force that makes state narratives tremble”. His work acts upon the forms through which power represents itself, dismantling its symbols and revealing the fragile narratives that sustain it. Primarily through sculpture, he displaces this iconography from its solemnity to underscore its constructed, precarious, and deeply contested nature. The exhibition acts as a critical device, intervening in the imaginaries from which power builds its authority, prompting viewers to question the reason for its order and its contradictions. His work engages with art history, from the Baroque to twentieth-century avant-garde, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art.
The exhibition, "The Wayward Pearl", takes its title from La Perla Peregrina, a famous jewel discovered in Panama in the sixteenth century. Its history condenses a close connection with concepts of singularity, value, and authority. Pearls, born from intrusion and coated in nacre, represent a negotiation between damage and form, violence and beauty. Similarly, history involves foundational acts of violence layered with narratives. Sánchez Castillo's work, like pearls, transforms trauma, returning it in an unexpected and unique form.
Retiro Park, Palacio de Velázquez
Free admission
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