(b 1978, Negreira, Spain). His practice focused mainly on video, sound and installation, combines the
hybridisation of natural elements, technology and sociopolitical
organisation through history. Using the tensions between representation and represented reality as a cognitive tool, some of his recent concerns are related to the colonisation of aesthetic experience by capital.
David Ferrando Giraut, CATOPTROPHILIA. Video Still. Tenderpixel.
David Ferrando Giraut, The Accursed Stare, 2016. Video Still.
David Ferrando Giraut, V.4 - You pass through walls, 2015. (Detail.) From the series Vortex. Lacquered MDF and wood, LED lights, absinthe La Fée Vert.
David Ferrando Giraut, The Accursed Stare, 2016. Video Still.
David Ferrando Giraut, The Accursed Stare, 2016. Video Still.
David Ferrando Giraut, V.6 - Nocturnal, 2015. From the series Vortex. Lacquered MDF and wood, LED lights, timer.
David Ferrando Giraut, V.6 - Nocturnal, 2015. (Detail.)
David Ferrando Giraut, Installation view of his solo show, La part maudite, 2018 at Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
David Ferrando Giraut, V.2 - Campari, Peppermint, Curaçao (Confessional), 2015. From the series Vortex. Lacquered MDF and wood, LED lights, programmer, glasses, Campari, Peppermint, Curaçao.
David Ferrando Giraut, V.2 - Campari, Peppermint, Curaçao (Confessional), 2015. (Detail.) From the series Vortex. Lacquered MDF and wood, LED lights, programmer, glasses, Campari, Peppermint, Curaçao. (Detail.)
David Ferrando Giraut, Second Nature, The Sea and the Waves, 2014. Tenderpixel.
David Ferrando Giraut, The Sea and the Waves, 2015. Tenderpixel.
David Ferrando Giraut, The Sea and the Waves, 2015. (Detail) Tenderpixel.
David Ferrando Giraut, Second Nature, 2014. Video Still. Tenderpixel.
David Ferrando Giraut, SPEECH PROSTHESIS (An Alchemical Conversation), 2014. Installation View, LABoral Centro de Arte y Producción Industrial, Gijón, Spain.
David Ferrando Giraut, SPEECH PROSTHESIS (An Alchemical Conversation), 2014. (Detial.) Custom quadraphonic speaker.
David Ferrando Giraut, SPEECH PROSTHESIS (An Alchemical Conversation), 2014. Digital animation with quadraphonic sound and custom quadraphonic speakers.
David Ferrando Giraut, SPEECH PROSTHESIS (An Alchemical Conversation), 2014. Digital animation with quadraphonic sound and custom quadraphonic speakers.
David Ferrando Giraut, SPEECH PROSTHESIS (An Alchemical Conversation), 2014. Digital animation with quadraphonic sound and custom quadraphonic speakers.
David Ferrando Giraut, CATOPTROPHILIA. Video Still.
David Ferrando Giraut, CATOPTROPHILIA. Video Still.
David Ferrando Giraut, Notes for a Genealogy of the Mineral Image, 2015. Digital print on Hahnemuhle cotton paper, 50X70 cm.
David Ferrando Giraut, Notes for a Genealogy of the Mineral Image, 2015. Digital print on Hahnemuhle cotton paper, 50X70 cm.
David Ferrando Giraut, MFSuite, Installation View, 2013.
David ferrando Giraut, MF (Anthem), 2013. Digital video with sound in CRT monitor, active speakers, wood and MDF.
David Ferrando Giraut, FORD PINTO, 2013. Two-channel digital video with sound, 2 CRT monitors, active speakers.
Dream Fair London
3 until 7 October 2017
The Accursed Stare
22 March until 22 April 2017
Feeling In The Eyes
– curated by Stella Sideli
Nina Beier, David Ferrando Giraut, Will Kendrick, Seth Price, Rustan Söderling
5 February until 19 March 2016
David Ferrando Giraut (b 1978, Negreira ES) lives and works in Gijón ES and London UK. He holds a MA Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London UK (2008). He participated at the LUX Associate Programme, London UK in 2010-2011.
Recent selected solo exhibitions include La part maudite, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, ES (2018/2019); Tenderpixel at Dream Fair, London UK (2017); The Accursed Stare, Tenderpixel, London, UK (2017); Notes for a Genealogy of the Mineral Image, Centro Párraga, Murcia ES (2016); Vortex, ARTBO Solo Projects, Bogotá CO (2015); Pantalla CCCB – A Month an Artist, CCCB, Barcelona ES(2015); Notes for a Genealogy of the Mineral Image, Galería Bacelos, Madrid ES (2015); Speech Prosthetsis, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón ES (2014); Catoptrophilia, The Green Parrot, Barcelona ES and 55 Sydenham Rd, Sydney AU (both 2014); MF Suite, ARCO Galería Bacelos, Madrid ES (2013); Cristalino, Galería Bacelos, Madrid and Vigo ES (2012); The Fantasist, MACUF, A Coruña ES (2011); Journeys End in Lovers Meetings, 10/12 – Or Nothing, Brussels BE (2011) and Galería Visor, Valencia ES (2010).
Selected group shows and screenings include Cambio de Rumbo, Tabacalera, Madrid (2017); Multiverso, Fundacion BBVA, Madrid ES (2016); Some Astronomers Kept a Distance, Salón, Madrid ES (2016); Feeling in the Eyes, Tenderpixel, London UK (2016); Us (They Made Monkeys Wear Google Glasses), The Swimming Pool / The Green Parrot, Barcelona ES (2015); Herding Islands, Rats and the Anthropocene, University of Manila Los Banos PH (2015); Producciones y procesos en la colección DKV, MARCO, Vigo ES (2015); Ocho visiones de un paisaje que nunca se termina de hacer, LABoral, Gijón ES (2015); Motion, Change, Presence, PAF Olomouc, CZ (2014); Impakt Festival: Soft Machines, Utrecht NL (2014); Luminous Flux, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam NL (2014); ARCO, Madrid ES (2014); It’s a Place of Force, REMAP4, Athens GR (2013); Zona MACO 2013, Galería Bacelos, Mexico City MX (2012); Topophobia, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, The Bluecoat, Liverpool and Spacex, Exeter UK (2012); 41 International Film Festival, Rotterdam NL (2012) and Against Gravity, ICA, London UK (2010).
Dream Fair London
3 until 7 October 2017
The Accursed Stare
22 March until 22 April 2017
Feeling In The Eyes
– curated by Stella Sideli
Nina Beier, David Ferrando Giraut, Will Kendrick, Seth Price, Rustan Söderling
5 February until 19 March 2016