Iván Argote's "We Own Our Time" features bold interlocking letters in white and black set against a fragmented backdrop of muted greens and purples, creating an engaging composition through geometric shapes. The text visually overlaps, highlighting themes of personal or collective autonomy. The piece employs a mixed-media approach reminiscent of street art, with textured surfaces suggesting urban decay. Argote's work often questions established narratives, exemplifying his intent to challenge traditional power structures and propose alternative perspectives in public spaces. ...
Film director and artist Iván Argote concentrates his practice on a questioning of the intimacy present in our relationships between other people, institutions, power, and belief. He achieves this through the production of film, sculpture, installation, and intervention. The stratagems he cultivates are drawn from the notions of tenderness, affect and humour, through which he proposes critical approaches to dismantling and decentralising the prevailing histories. Argote seeks to construct alternative symbolic functions for public spaces, through performance, large-scale installation and intervening on monuments. ...
