Iván Argote's "We Own Our Time" presents a textured collage with a palette of muted greens, blues, and whites, featuring bold, overlapping text. The fragmented letters spell a powerful message, challenging perceptions of time and control. Argote's style is rooted in contemporary intervention, using broken shapes to evoke disruption. His work critiques societal norms and reclaims public narratives with humor and intimacy, inviting viewers to reconsider the spaces they inhabit. ...
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. ...
