Abelardo Gil-Fournier (Spain, 1979) is an artist and researcher, born in Salé (Morocco) and based in Madrid. Originally trained in Physics, he holds a PhD in Arts from Winchester School of Art (UK). He is currently working at FAMU Prague (Czech Republic) as part of the Operational Images and Visual Culture project and is a member of AMT Archaeologies of Media and Technology.
Her practice addresses the intertwining of image surfaces with the living crust of the planet. In her work, images are understood as temporal processes that operate across multiple materials of varying materiality and involve different scales at the same time. As a consequence, his work encompasses different techniques, ranging from sound and video installations to computational processes such as machine learning, to assemblages where the living merges with the animated.
His work has been shown and discussed in international spaces such as Transmediale (Berlin), Medialab Prado (Madrid), Strelka Institute (Moscow), Galeria Millenium (Lisbon), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), MUSAC and Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (León). ), Le Bal (Paris), Fotocolectania (Barcelona), NeMe Center of Art (Cyprus), IKKM (Weimar), Matadero Center of Art (Madrid), Laboral Center of Art (Gijón) as well as in Spanish Cultural Centres in Mexico, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
He is currently working together with Jussi Parikka on a book about plant surfaces and the multi-scale materialities of the image.
