(Santa Cruz de La Palma, 1976)
A graduate in Art History from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Javier Fuentes Feo defended his Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in the Department of Philosophy of the same university with a research paper on Friedrich Nietzsche and contemporary art. He has published numerous articles on contemporary artists, art theory and cultural analysis.
He has also directed, together with his sister Nayra Sanz Fuentes, the feature film Tan Antiguo como el mundo (Best Art Documentary, 20th Bogotá International Film Festival).
Between 2010 and October 2014 he was the director of Cendeac (Center for Documentation and Advanced Studies of Contemporary Art in Murcia) where he launched or collaborated in the development of projects such as D. Nuevo Ensayo, Conversations around the photobook, Celuloides Memories or Film Fissures. The latter, conceived by him in 2011, has been a research project aimed at the exhibition and analysis of the most avant-garde Spanish and Latin American cinema of recent years.
His publications include An Inherited Context. Friedrich Nietzsche and 20th Century Art (Cendeac, 2007) and Cut in Blood. A Conversation with Gunter Brus (Fundación Antonio Pérez, 2007).
He participated in MediaLab Madrid through "The Postmedia Condition in the Spanish Context". April 6 and 7, 2006 The purpose of this symposium -which ran parallel to the eponymous exhibition- was to try to think, in the company of artists and theorists, about the historical drift of the different media over the last decades and their current situation in our contemporary artistic context. How has the problem of the so-called Postmedia Condition affected or been presented in Spain? When have artists thought about it in a direct and explicit (self-reflexive) way and when has it appeared in the development of works that sought to address problems of a general nature: time, language, the archive, the subject...? What political, social and economic incidences does this Condition have? Is it possible, in fact, to speak of a Postmedia Condition without falling into a certain unifying reductionism?… Thinking about these issues and trying to reveal their contributions and contradictions both in our own socio-political environment and beyond our borders, is what was attempted to be carried out over those days with the presence of renowned national and international figures of thought and art.
