Joan Priego

Since Nietzsche and Freud, “the Subject” is no longer a stable entity as it was for Kant or Hegel, but a multiplicity of masks. Our Postmodern subjectivity has become fragmented. This contemporary reflection about identity becomes the main topic in my work. My sculptures are carved out from pieces of wood; they pretend to be some kind of metaphor about today’s individual identities, fragmented and multiple. Like the contemporary concept of the Subject, they have been made up from the ruins of the project of Modernity. I also use recycled wood coming out from demolished old buildings for my works. What was the proud joist of a building becomes, in my art, just a part that helps in the construction of a splintered identity.

Sculptor from Barcelona working Mainly with wood