Fran Meana (Avilés, 1982)

Received his Fine Art degree in 2006 from the University of Vigo, where afterwards he completed a Doctorate course, becoming a postgraduate researcher.

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Recent exhibitions include: “Before Everything”, CA2M, Móstoles, Madrid. “Basado en hechos reales”, ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz. “Everything is out there”, La Casa Encendida, Madrid. “89 km.”, CGAC/ MARCO de Vigo. “Bringing up knowledge”, Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, León.

His practice investigates the role symbolic structures play in the construction of collective rituals and historical narratives. Constantly adding new data, dubious family members, fictional structures or deliberately inaccurate readings he builds a personal methodology that embraces both the impermanence of ideals and the need to continually refresh our vision of the future.
This provides a creative platform for projecting new structures, as well as alternative ways in which the existing ones could have unfolded. His projects take form through different media (drawings, videos, audio works or collaborative projects) to analyze and question the lineage of ideas we have inherited.