The Spanish artist Ivan Pérez (Tineo, Asturias, 1973) does to make a reflection again with the images of this new exhibition, the third in JM Gallery after his previous projects like Producto Interior Bruto – 2001 and Prehistoria – 2003. Normally he moved by investigations around the daily life’s representation, about that he has done a critical reading of social aspects that often go unnoticed, he makes that in this occasion encouraged by the intention of  to take us to discover the distance existing between the viewer and the representation or the spectacle.The war museums, preferential object in the new investigations of Ivan Pérez, are plentiful in Central Europe and England for to recreate warlike actions of their history and to show the whole destructive arsenal like impact objects recycled in work of art. Further on disasters and the blood, these museums that show in a teaching and amused form the horror like spectacle, are taken like spaces of big visual consumption. In this way, Iván Pérez proposes a tourist journey by a dozen of museums and memorials of war (Warshow Serial) in Holland and England; and many science and nature museums in Belgium, Holland and England (series Landscapes for an animal dead). His furtive glance disseminates the reality by means of a series of impact images for we place before the viewer and we transform in participant of consumption and expectation.The room with torpedo of a submarine or a leafy natural park before the attentive glance of viewers, and a gigantic object covered with a big material and framed in a stage of daily life, are some elements that the artist presents in three photographs in large size for to begin the explosive run from a confrontation or dialogue of reality, the semblance and the representation.

The table and chair of a school with drawings of rifles, flowers and tanks engraved, or the Miguel’s video where we see a solitaire young man head on, with a firm glance, still, expectant before a sequence of artificial events that happen behind him, we introduce in an environment of anxiety, uncertainty and ambiguity, and we rebel the more cruel aspects of the human condition.

We are amazed before the recent past of the war and the power of destruction of the man against him self, we touch the anti-aircraft cannons or tanks like if we touch in a zoo the window of crocodiles’ cage and we observe a new race of machines slept, almost useless that represent the industrial patrimony of disaster.  

Iván Pérez has been trained in the University of Castilla La Mancha (Spain), in the Photography International Centre of New York and the Aki Fine Art’s School of Holland. His job has been showed widely in solo and group exhibitions and video festivals in Spain, Holland and United States.