La Perla Peregrina

Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Madrid, 1970) argues that «art is a force that makes the narratives of the State tremble». Starting from this idea, he intervenes in the ways in which power is represented, dismantles its symbols and reveals the fragility of the stories that sustain it. Working mainly through sculpture, he removes this iconography from its solemnity, to show its constructed, precarious and deeply questioned character. By analysing monuments, images, gestures and legends, he makes clear that history is not a stable narrative, but a field of permanent conflict that also affects the present. His work, and his installation in this exhibition, act as a critical device that intervenes in the imaginaries from which power builds its authority, inviting the public to question the reasons for its order and its contradictions.