Luis Bisbe (Malaga, 1965). The artist has lived and worked in Barcelona for the last twenty years. Interested in intervening directly in the perception of everything around us, he has used the exhibition space itself as just another element to interact with on several occasions. Most of his work is related directly to the place where he finds himself, his technique decided in each case by the idea, for which reason he does not use any technique in particular.

Bisbe usually works with everyday objects and generates strange situations in interior and public spaces. He is a keen observer of the paradoxes that occur in everyday life: contradictory messages, unintended ironies, malfunctioning objects and so on. The resulting works contain slight displacements that destabilise the perception of things as Bisbe also attempts to cleanse them of their artistic aura.

Luis Bisbe has presented solo exhibitions most outstandingly at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art in Valladolid, the Joan Miró Foundation and the Casa Encendida in Madrid. His work can also be seen in the permanent collection of the Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum, whilst he has also taken part in collective exhibitions in Guatemala, Tokyo, Berlin, Oporto, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Scotland, Annemasse, Valence, Valencia, Bilbao, Seville and Zumaya, among other places.

Biography written in 2012