Javier Erre

Javier Erre

Javier Erre transforms personal memories into pictorial images where memory is distorted and reconfigured. Through a precise technique that combines photography, digital retouching, and oil painting, he constructs intimate scenes with an ambiguous atmosphere, somewhere between the familiar and the unsettling. His artistic quality lies in his ability to condense emotion, technique, and narrative into images charged with psychological resonance. Distortion is not an error, but a language: a way of thinking about memory as plastic material. Each work proposes a visual reflection on what we remember, what we forget, and how we represent it.

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Signature value

14.6

Accum. revaluation

11.19 %

Pink is not a color

A child in a pink rabbit costume travels the world for the first time. His journey is a fiction about awakening, desire, and difference. Between impositions, rules, and affections, he discovers that growing up is not about obeying, but about finding oneself. Here, pink ceases to be a color to become a question, a gesture, a resistance. A story of self-discovery and one's own gaze.

9 works in the series
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Balloon | Javier Erre
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Family Distortions

A family image is never just a memory: it is a construction, it is fiction. This series starts from domestic archives to explore how memory shapes identity and how the past transforms each time we look at it. Through erasure, repetition, or distortion, the images operate as altered traces, as traumatic gestures that rewrite what has been lived. Childhood, authority, bonds, desire for freedom: everything is revealed and hidden at the same time. Between what is missing and what remains, voids emerge. And in them, perhaps, the truth.

7 works in the series

Works by Javier Erre in the catalogue: An ordinary rabbit · Balloon · Cualquiera, un conejo · Cuéntame como te ha ido · El Grito · Flag · Hacia lo salvaje · I don't breathe anymore · It is not an ordinary rabbit · Kintsugi for After the Battle · Lampyridae · Making Adequate Progress · Rosa, un conejo · The girl you like the most · The memory game, I · You Can't Do That