Carlos (Madrid, 1999) is a performance and conceptual artist who is studying 3nd year in BEAR Fine Arts Program at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem.
My work is presented primarily through performance, sound poetry, text, sculpture and installation where I explore mundane overlooked elements, power structures and conditions, such as labor, class, urban landscape, microeconomy, alienation, hegemony, communication and political speech. I use greyness as a conceptual and aesthetical parapet that holds those realities historically overshadowed between binary poles or under economical, political and individual interests. My practice departs from autoethnographic research, cultural archaeology, and employs different anti-communicative and non-linear processes including listing, journaling and continuous writing.
Education
2022-2026 Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts, ArtEZ University of Arts, Arnhem
2017-2021 Grado de Periodismo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Group Exhibitions
2024
‘Plein Air: Picnic Exhibition’. Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem
‘OPEN HOUSE: 5 ROOM APARTMENT’. Omstand. Arnhem
Performances
2024
‘Carta al gobierno neerlandés en denuncia del genocidio palestino’. PALESTINE FUNDRAISER. De Kurk, Arnhem
‘de immigrant’. ArtEZ Take Over. Dat Bolwerck, Zutphen
‘de immigrant’. ‘OPEN HOUSE: 5 ROOM APARTMENT’. Omstand, Arnhem
Professional Experience
2022 - Restaurant Assistant and Bartender. Berensen, Arnhem. Netherlands.
2021 - 2022 Restaurant Assistant. Tinglado Oyster Bar, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
2019 Restaurant Assistant. Viva Cala Mesquida Resort & Spa ****, Cala Mesquida, Spain.
2018 Delivery Man. Domino’s Pizza, Boadilla del Monte, Spain.