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Pepo Salazar Lacruz (b. 1972, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain) lives and works in Paris where he also teaches at PCA Paris college of Art. His work has been widely exhibited over the past two decades, including at MOMENTUM 10 Biennale, Centre Georges Pompidou, MACBA, Palais de Tokyo, the Ricard Foundation, CA2M, La Casa Encendida, and the 49th and 50th editions of the Venice Biennale, among many others. In 2015, he represented Spain at the 56th Venice Biennale alongside Francesc Ruiz and Cabello/ Carceller, within a project curated by Marti Manem.

His artistic practice spans multiple media, including sculptural assemblage, video art, novel writing, sound pieces, performance, collage, and musical composition. Closely aligned with the Fluxus movement, his work oscillates between the absurdity of an extreme capitalist world and the intrinsic humor that erupts from its critique.

Often working with everyday objects — ranging from the banal, absurd, over-conceptualized, or ideologically charged — Salazar Lacruz arranges them in new constellations while aiming to subvert the objects' symbolic values into a new sense, a critical abstraction of reality. In doing so, his artworks contain an inherent critique, for example, of capitalist institutions, consumer culture, and the influence of mass media, but they deliberately avoid asserting a single perception or interpretation. The artist’s rhizomatic, fluid approach instead considers the objects as their own agents, actively producing inconsistencies and an autonomous performativity.