Agustín Ortiz Herrera

I am a visual artist trained in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, with studies in Film Production at The New School (New York) and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Konstfack (Stockholm). My artistic practice unfolds across sculpture, audiovisual media and performance, from a critical queer perspective. Through these languages, I explore the devices of representation and systems of knowledge that have shaped the relationships between art, science and memory, questioning their patriarchal and colonial foundations.

My work has been presented at institutions such as MACBA, CCCB, Arts Santa Mònica and La Capella, and has included collaborations with communities and scientific institutions. I am interested in thinking of art as a form of knowledge—one capable of articulating alliances between the human and the non-human, and of proposing new material, political and affective ways of relating to the environment.

Thesis

marica, bastarda, matérica: sobre el potencial disidente de la escultura

My doctoral research proposes a study based on experimental sculptural practice to rethink the relationship between matter, body and knowledge from a queer sensitivity. Through hybrid material processes—combining the organic, the industrial and the living—the project seeks to challenge Western notions of hierarchy, agency and value associated with matter.

Inspired by thinkers such as Jane Bennett, Emanuele Coccia and Laura Tripaldi, the project develops counter-narratives that contest dominant anthropocentric and extractivist views, positioning sculpture as a space for critical and speculative thought. Through this practice, I aim to explore how queer methodologies—such as drag or camp—can infiltrate material and epistemological processes, opening possibilities for a more open, interdependent and situated understanding of materiality in the contemporary context.

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