Luis Tapia

Luis Tapia works conceptually with sculpture, installation, performance and lens-based media. An interest in myth, identity and becoming informs a study into narratives of authority. Who decides which stories are told, how does this framing of history coalesce into a cultural subconscious, and what spaces remain against the shadow of this monolith? Misinterpretation, multiplicity and counterfactuals serve the dual purpose of revealing this narrativization of reality as an unreliable surplus, but also cleaves open a space for a new semiotics to emerge, one that is able to speak in multiple tounges and perspectives without contradiction, one founded on a more empathic and parallax understanding of perception.

This work references the misremembered, the lies that conjure truth, the perforations that exist between fiction and reality, all against the backdrop of a profound absence, an estrangement of one’s own narrative, a suspicion that perhaps our story is being told for us - more crucially, it might be being told against us. It is in this centre of meaning we find ourselves, however this meaning is embodied and disembodied threefold; from the outside in.