Solo exhibition in Miró Mallorca Foundation
“Utopía del lodo y Sashimi de bruma”
19/09/2025 - 23/03/2026
Grip Face (Palma de Mallorca, 1989) has built a playground to place us before a moment of crisis. As in other projects, the artist manages to escape Millennial nostalgia to instead offer commentary on a present event. The sinister warning, which contrasts with the sugary and sparkling tone of these forms, actually reveals new and ominous imposed logics (military and colonial) that break apart everything once promised as well-being: public space implies danger, amusement is not an option, and childhoods are utterly threatened.
The key element in this ensemble is the mask. Grip Face has created a visual dictionary inspired by signs, palettes, and references from the street. He resorts to a crossover between internet folklore and underground references. The artist constantly plays with the exchange of references, always revealing while concealing at the same time—a movement that begins with his own alter ego. It continues with a repertoire of portraits, as he calls them. They become avatars that carry a double meaning, confronting reality and poetry. Here, a prosthetic stage set of resin, velvet, and injected hair places us before a stellar circle, which is nothing but a note on European complicity in this panorama.
Text by
@nataliadelarosa
With the support of
@labibireus.country /
@labibireus.city
Photos:
@juan.david.cortes_studio
@miromallorca
2025
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