Alvaro Perez Mulas

I was raised by an artist, my father. At home and in class. So, art became my natural means of expression. Although I am confronted with the traditional vision in which the artist chooses a field of work, in my father's case sculpture, my approach is the opposite. I believe that the medium must be adapted to the idea that you want to convey. This is how I have found myself working with photography, sculpture, video art, installation, performance, painting or drawing, whatever I needed at the time.

In fact, through my work, I look for contradictions to reveal different approaches, which helps me to question my own beliefs, to exorcise my fears or to rethink my needs. This happens in my relationship with loss, both emotionally and materially, hardship that always leaves its trace. That is why nostalgia and melancholy permeate my work about the becoming and the consequences that the passage of time causes in men and their environment, and the transcendence and the sediment that we leave in our absence. Or the loss of innocence, the loss of confidence in a society that I see increasingly critically and ironically.

In addition, I also work as a teacher, what has really been beneficial to my work, since these two facets are not the two sides of a single coin, which never meet. My visual art work is mediated by my educational approaches and these are completely flooded by artistic creative processes. For this reason, when I talk about my work, I do not differentiate two courses of action. Surely there is the origin of my interest in the perceptual system and its biased interpretation based on vested interests, both to question it and to take advantage of it, using it as a starting point; or the correlation between the media, mainly visual and literary.