Andrés Montes
#Frontera

“Visual artist and words’s lover. In Berlin I realized that something mysterious is hiding in the newspapers. I remember the Colonia Libertad de Tijuana at night where it was very cold. Also walking 17 days through the Cantabrian Sea. And another time that I walked from El Limón to Guamúchil, this was much earlier. My name is Andrés Montes and I am one of the people who think that we are the story we tell ourselves, ergo, we are fiction. Play with dirt. One son. It is five in the morning.” Andrés Montes

ARTIST STATEMENT

Andrés Montes is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist who currently lives and works in Porto, Portugal. His creative interests explore the poetics of displacement, investigating concepts such as permanence and the mechanisms we use to create our own space. Through the investigation of various materials and techniques ranging from drawing to installation, sculpture or video, he investigates the representation of construction strategies of a place and highlights the fragility of belongings.

ABOUT FRONTIER

This program at Proyecto´ace has been very interesting and very productive. The honest and deep analysis and criticism of the pieces that we present are appreciated, opening new routes of scrutiny that broaden and give weight to the work.