Capillares II

white horsehair dyed red, edition 2/3
350 x 40 x 40 cm

Capillares II is a work woven from red-dyed horsehair. The piece plays with the visual associations of the material, whose identity oscillates between blood vessels and plant roots.

The hybrid and mutating nature of Javier Pérez’s sculptures makes them difficult to identify.

Javier Pérez pays close attention to the formal qualities of his works. He regularly uses raw materials combined with artisanal techniques, drawing on their ambivalence. Through these processes, the artist seeks to give tangible form to intangible elements—such as breath and movement—that give shape to the fur. Straddling the line between transparency and opacity, beauty and repulsion, the materials evoke the contradictory feelings one might experience when confronting nature.