Karlos Gil

Karlos Gil (Talavera, 1984) re-elaborates the temporal distance between the past, present and future to explore the “otherness” of our surrounding world. His practice examines the complex and often contradictory ways in which human beings relate with the natural world, layering his artworks with encrypted stories from science fiction, occultism, underground culture, nihilism, mythology and industrial and biological evolution. His latest projects are conceived as scenarios that generate new possibilities of co-dependence between events and the objects they produce, always reflecting on a manifest impression of the “fall of time”, decadence, ruin or obsolescence of historical time.

Karlos Gil studied at the School of Visuals Arts in New York and the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon and Madrid, where he obtained a doctorate in 2016. He has had several international exhibitions in spaces like Centre Pompidou, Paris; HKW, Berlin; Witte de With, Rotterdam; NTU CCA, Singapore, Gasworks, London; Fondazione Baruchello, Rome; CRAC-Montbeliard; Galería Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo; MARCO, Vigo; CA2M, Madrid. He has taken part in the 3rd International Young Art Biennial of Moscow (2012) and Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) in 2020. He is a former resident artist at Gasworks (London) in 2015.

Karlos Gil is on the roster of Galeria Francisco Fino in Lisbon.