Nestor Armando Gil

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Sal (campo, puente, nube) 2010 Sal (campo, puente, nube) 2010

Sal (campo, puente, nube) 2010 Papalotes 2010

Papalotes 2010 Papalotes 2010

Azucar - Detail 2010 Azucar - Installation View 2010

Sal - Installation View 2010

Artist Statement

Call me Visionary. Stripped of its ego and arrogance, the term denotes ‘a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible.’ Call me that. I re- claim Visionary from the mythical genius in the name of the enthusiastic dreamer.

Questions of culture and identity are at the center of my thinking, which expands from there to include inquiries about movement, memory, and loss. My projects function at a crossroads between sculptural, new media, and social practices. While the focus of my work tends toward the serious, it is my hope that the work also carries moments of humor, from the dry to the absurd.

As a maker, I sustain an active engagement with the production of cultural objects. I regard technologies like video and the web as tools and materials like any other, the contemporary counterparts of the hammer and chisel. Furthermore, I seek to integrate these modes of production into a practice that is centered in installation, intervention, and performance. My practice has come to include both works that function within and works that function outside of the gallery context.

I believe in ‘many eyes’ as ideal for creating and solving the challenges of the art making process. This desire for the work to be born out of engagement with the community around me is mirrored by the participatory and interventionist strategies sometimes employed in the dissemination of the work. Community informs the entire process of my work, from concept to completion.

I work to develop poetries of image, of function, and of interaction.

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