Bodies of Water
the 13th Shanghai Biennale
The gallery loaned artworks by José Manuel Egea on the occasion of the 13th Shanghai Biennale.
Since November 2020, the Biennale has been unfolding in a temporary project space in three different experiences that allows the artists, thinkers and curators to develop their work in close collaboration with the City of Shanghai, its people, networks of activism, organizations, and institutions. Bodies of Water will culminate with the opening of the third and final phase: an exhibition, that will run through PSA and expand into a series of locations along the Huangpu River and across the city.
Curators : Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, Dr. You Mi and Filipa Ramos.
Convinced of his lycanthropy (belief in the transformation of a man into a wolf), this young Madrid-based artist draws inspiration from Kafkaesque metamorphoses in comics and mythology. His polymorphic work—drawings, sculptures, performances—urges us to embrace our repressed therianthropy (human-to-animal transformation). Represented by the gallery since 2016, his works appeared recently in Photo | Brut #2 in Brussels (2022), Portreto de la Animo at the Museo Nacional de Soares dos Reis in Porto (2023), as well as at Fundación ONCE in Madrid and Fondation Francès (2024). His creations are part of major European collections, including those of Hervé Lancelin, Laurent Dumas, and Piet Meyer.