Curatorial Notes

Spanish artist Ampparito turns the occasion of death, from an often theoretical idea, placed safely in the distance, into a perceivable reality. Esperanza de Vida emerges from recent personal confrontation with mortality. The work is both an installation and a performance. Done by hand, Ampparito writes all the days leading up to December 2099, the next 75 years, the probable maximum lifetime of every person who will be present in the exhibit, compressing this time into one week.

The handwritten calendars cover the walls, allowing people to become aware of each day, month, and year as they walk through it. “We know that there is a day on which we will leave this world, yet we do not know when it is; we live as if it were far away, until circumstance forces us to reckon with its proximity.

–Carla Gamalinda

About the Artist

Born in Madrid in 1991, the artist studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid before developing a practice rooted in counter-advertising, urban intervention and mural painting, which they pursued until 2019. Their work explores deception, infiltration and the fragile boundary between truth and illusion. Camouflage and trompe-l’oeil appear not as technical displays but as conceptual tools — ways to inhabit fantasy when reality proves immovable, and to expose how the false can become true and the true can dissolve into fiction.

Everyday objects are altered and displaced, serving not as finished forms but as triggers for behaviour and social reaction. The artist embraces the poetic absurdity of effort: hand-writing calendars until the year 2100 to mark the date of their own death, or installing hundreds of broken clocks so that one always displays the correct time. Humor and irony act as essential strategies, approaches to subjects too heavy to confront without a protective laugh.

Preferring non-art contexts, the artist situates works in daily life, provoking genuine encounter without the assumptions of contemporary art settings. His practice challenges certainty, disrupts habit, and invites viewers into a space where logic fractures and imagination briefly takes control.