Flavio Garciandía presents a selection of recent works on the occasion of his first solo exhibition in Madrid. The artist, considered one of the most relevant figures of post-conceptual art in Central and South America, invites us to reflect on the ideological keys hidden behind the Global Art System. Self-referentiality on this occasion takes on special importance: the artist turns himself and his work into an object of scrutiny. The practice of irony and appropriation, fundamental to his work, has always allowed him to corrode the modern notion of individual artistic genius and to make notorious his resistance to taking art history too seriously. But on this occasion he puts the spotlight on himself and his own style.

Garciandía's work always surprises us with its lucidity, hedonism and conceptual complexity. His analytical interest in the kitschthe stylingthe neodecohigh culture, the vernacular and the popular. Through the insistence on these forms of submerged urban culture, popular morphological repertoires, decorative perversion, mechanisms of impersonation and distortion of cultural identities in the "global village", tropical paraphernalia and carnival, Flavio draws attention to the importance of popular absurdity as an exercise of resistance to the dominant discourses of power.