Pepo Salazar Lacruz is a Basque artist living and working in Paris since 2013.
His work has been widely disseminated over the past two decades, notably at MOMENTUM 10 Biennale, Centre Georges Pompidou, MACBA Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Ricard, CA2M Museum, and La Casa Encendida.
In 2015, he represented Spain alongside Francesc Ruiz and Cabello/Carceller, curated by Marti Manem, at the 56th Venice Biennale. His artistic practice encompasses a variety of mediums, from sculptural assemblage to artist films, novel and sound piece writing, performance, collage, and album composition.
At Passages, the artist presents fourteen recent productions, assemblages derived from imposed protocols, created primarily for the art center's space. Close to the Fluxus movement and the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, he is attuned to theories of linguistics, philosophy, economics, and ecology. Pepo Salazar Lacruz appropriates symbolic objects of the excesses of consumer society in a form of critical abstraction, oscillating between the absurdity of capitalism pushed to its extreme and an intrinsic humor in his works.
The exhibition thus reveals a polysemy of joyful and paradoxical forms.