Simón Catalán Molina
The conquest of space

Simón Catalán Molina completed a SUB30 Production Residency in December 2014.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My work, has a strong graphic mark and is directed towards science fiction. The audiovisual media of such genre (movies and TV) is the starting point to create hybrid images based in machinery, artifacts and celestial bodies.

I am particularly interested in certain obsessions presented in these science fiction movies and series as the fascination with space travels and extraterrestrial life, exacerbated technological artifacts, the development of modular and transformable vehicules, the neat and geometrical aspect of buildings. All these obsessions are transformed into images which I am interested in changing, transforming, cutting and finally representing.

Very close to illustration, my drawings and printmakings travel among a fantastic futuristic movie and a scientific encyclopedia, taking and transforming the information they provide me.

Disassembling, relocating, assembling and editing are all operations that allow me to manipulate information, altering the shape and content but keeping latent the source where it came from.