Borondo "Animal" Exhibition

In his upcoming exhibition ‘Animal’, the Spanish urban artist Gonzalo Borondo aims to explore the conflict between our innate animal instincts and our present lives, which are coated with the dependence of technology and our fear for the unknown. The show will take place in LondonNewcastle Project Space in Shoreditch, and will be open to visitors from the 5th through the 26th of February.

Borondo’s work is raw ,powerful, poetic and evoking, inciting the public to pause and reflect on their own mortality—their memento mori—leaving all vanities and mass-media-influenced notions behind. “The biggest part of my work [is to] try to reflect our dramatic nature. I use the universal body-language to show the issues of the human condition.” With this in mind, the artist will take us through eight thematic spaces that include video installations and painting animations in collaboration with Carmen Maín (Spain), and sculpture installations, created together with Edoardo Tresoldi (Italy) and Despina Charitonidi (Germany).

“London is the place in Europe where things are happening” says Borondo, who was a passing resident of Hackney and now comes back to reveal his most extensive project yet. The solo show is curated by Rom Levy, founder of RexRomae, and noted art curator, Charlotte Dutoit.