Snails XIII, 2026
cherry wood, resin, acrylic paint, plaster, rope
58 x 50 x 35 cm
22 ⅞ x 19 ¾ x 13 ¾ in.
Fuentesal Arenillas’ work delves into the fields of semiotics and anthropology to structure a type of artwork that is, at the same time, a game, a totem, an archive, and an event. The duo draws on the Dadaist tradition and concrete art to define an imaginary in which the mundane, accidental, and superfluous acquire a quasi-monumental dimension. Fuentesal Arenillas has generated a universe of artistic objects deeply marked by physical and thought duality. Among the defining ideas of their work, we can mention the exploration of a drawing-like volume in which line becomes solid matter, the evolution as a vital event, the mutation of materials, the time as the center of attention, a taste for popular craft traditions in the face of defiant modernity, an interest in the unfinished and often disposable states of the staging of the canon.
This peculiar aesthetic means that each object they imagine is an echo of the body, a cell of meaning in which all discussions of the erotics and mysticism of being are stripped of conflict, sexism, or doubleness.
