Philodendron Composition | Miguel Ángel Cardenal

My Mother's Pots is the title of the exhibition that the artist proposes exclusively for the Background exhibition space (Barcelona), being a clear homage to his place of origin and his bond with family and home. The artist's work maintains constants in the plastic language of his work, in which the use of elements such as light, shine, repetition, trompe-l'oeil, or virtual object and space predominates, all derived from a close relationship between current society with the web, advertising, the market, television, social networks, etc. The speed of change in the creation of new means of relating people with space and objects goes beyond the speed of adaptation of our understanding. Communication through social networks with his family has been the trigger to recreate a very personal patio where he highlights what we see directly and assume as real. His mother's profile images, showing the pots in her patio, are now transformed into a peculiar patio where the image of the plants takes on a new rereading. A new patio with a clear objective: to question the ability to understand the real and the fictitious in these new images derived from new media. The artist, belonging to the Millennial generation, shows a clear concern for the loss of knowledge through the corporeal and the palpable, these being displaced by a new form of relationship in which knowledge is direct and distant at the same time, and in turn generates new languages that the artist focuses on, and on this occasion, presents to us in the form of a virtual patio.