Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao presents the exhibition Anónima by artist Txuspo Poyo (Alsasua, Navarra, 1963).
Over the course of his career, Txuspo Poyo has shaped an artistic corpus that intertwines languages and media such as film, video, photography and installation, to explore the intersections between culture, technology and politics. His work often challenges the boundaries between reality and fiction, science and mythology, past and present, to create a visual narrative that invites reflection on the bonds resulting from authority, the mechanisms of control that stem from it, and contemporary history.
Under the title Anónima, in reference to ancestral popular wisdom, this monographic exhibition traces much of Txuspo Poyo’s artistic oeuvre, spanning from the 1990s to the present day.
Description:
Curated by writer and researcher Álvaro de los Ángeles, the exhibition brings together a selection of works that reveal the distinctive and personal universe built by the artist, grounded in the interplay between his interest in historical and documentary themes, and its translation into artistic projects. It also offers an insight into the creative development of his practice, his working methods, and his capacity for innovation in the use of materials, formats, and contemporary artistic languages.
It is essential to explore how Txuspo Poyo shapes his artistic practice in projects such as Cadáveres exquisitos, where his interventions in hundreds of newspaper obituaries highlight the uniqueness of a legacy that belongs both to the personal and to the collective imagination. Or in projects such as Izaro, Expediente: Túnel de la Engaña or Gabinetes pedagógicos, where he portrays identity, history, and the legacy of his research work. In these cases the documentary material becomes the thread with which he weaves a multidisciplinary body of work that unfolds through video, sculpture, and photography. Anónima stands as the most extensive, profound, and significant exhibition devoted to Txuspo Poyo’s work to date. It invites the viewer to rediscover the depth and complexity of his oeuvre and to understand how he has anticipated many of the crucial debates that now lie at the heart of contemporary art and global culture.
