Asier Mendizabal

• ProjecteSD, Barcelona (ES)
• 14.05.–14.07.2026

Asier Mendizabal has been constructing a remarkable body of work over the past twenty years, in which he pays most attention to the relations between form, discourse and ideology. The question of the sign and its materiality and identification as a social and political emblem has a central place in his practise. Mendizabal’s works confront conventional narratives of history, archival or ethnographic objects, or political and subcultural representations, looking at the technical and material conditions of all of them. While sculpture is most representative in his oeuvre, Mendizabal’s work unfolds in many other media, from silkscreen, flags to photographic series and collages, always with an instinctive feel for sculptural and graphic form. Writing is a regular and fundamental resource in his practice.

All the material in this exhibition refers to and draws on a series of articles by the French paleoanthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan. The author of Gesture and Speech proposed the influential idea of the parallel evolution and mutual determination of manual gestures along the symbolic capacity that for a long time seemed to define the human.
Technique and speech. Language and the hand. I recall here two moments in which Leroi Gourhan’s work refers directly to hands and which, each for a reason, produce in me an almost sentimental affect.

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