Xevi Vilaró
Catalan artist inscribed within a new realist art, but at the same time magical and illusory, as it is not limited to framing urban landscapes or human scenes, but rather transforms our everyday life into something subtle and personal. With more than 20 years in the circuit, he is a regular at the most renowned International Fairs, including: KIAF Seoul, Context Miami, L.A. Art Show, Scope Art Basel, or Zona Maco.
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Future awaits
In Future Awaits, Xevi Vilaró offers a disturbing look at humanity's future, a future marked by fascination and, at the same time, the abuse of technology. True to his style of meticulous and disturbing realism, the artist constructs scenes in which the human and the artificial coexist in tension. The series articulates a fierce critique of certain behaviors in contemporary society: the alienation generated by social media, the overexploitation of natural resources, the invisible surveillance that subjugates the individual, and the growing inability to distinguish between the real and the virtual. Vilaró uses recurring symbols in his work —masks as a metaphor for historical error, fragmented faces, withered vegetation— to question the viewer through a somber, almost prophetic poetics.
Mantis
With Mantis, Xevi Vilaró places us in a territory where the future has become an anticipated ruin. Through human figures covered with masks that evoke both the aesthetics of the medieval plague and post-apocalyptic imaginary, the artist constructs a visual narrative about the fragility of the species and the stubbornness of its mistakes. The masks function as a double symbol: on the one hand, they represent the need for protection against a hostile, contaminated, or devastated environment; on the other, they highlight the inability to directly confront the consequences of our own actions. Thus, the characters in Mantis appear as both survivors and executioners, creatures trapped in a suspended time that casts the shadow of a latent catastrophe. The title of the series alludes to the predatory insect—the praying mantis—which in symbolic tradition embodies both spirituality and instinctive violence. In Vilaró's hands, this ambiguity is transferred
Point Nemo Series
Point Nemo is the most remote point on the planet, a place where solitude reaches its maximum expression: no human being can inhabit it, no terrestrial signal reaches it, no ship frequents it. For Xevi Vilaró, this geographical enclave becomes a metaphor for the existential drift and cultural emptiness of our era. In this series, Vilaró projects a pictorial ocean that is not just water and horizon, but a mirror of the social isolation produced by digital hyperconnection.
