Ricard Trigo (Palafrugell, 1980) focuses his research on the philosophical problem intrinsic to the concept of progress, an idea that is full of ideology, and how this constitutes a paradigm of values ​​that are modelled by scientific and technological development. In particular, Trigo focuses on the scenario of new relations that each technical success creates with art. Recently, this line of research led him, in practice, to study certain materials produced by secondary branches of global companies such as Bayer and BASF, which end up being used in the art world as means of representation, although they were not produced for this purpose. The exercise that Trigo proposes is based on presenting these materials, though not bringing them to the fore, but subordinating them to the rhetoric of the art display. From this position, any attempt at establishing an aesthetic or narrative is immediately questioned in practically methodological way through a grammatical review of the structure that comprises the work itself.

In recent years, Ricard Trigo has shown his work in various exhibitions, at such venues as La Capella (Barcelona), Fundació Suñol (Barcelona), Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa (Olot), Dafo-Centre d'Art la Panera (Lleida), Museu de l'Empordà (Figueres) and Galeria Estrany - De la Mota (Barcelona) and, internationally, at the Taidemuseo (Imatra, Finland), Galeriile Fundației Regali (Iaşi, Romania) and the Centro Cultural Universitario (Corrientes, Argentina). A selection of his video works can also be found in the catalogue of the Hamaca video art distribution site.

Biography written in 2016