EBRERINT
Introspection: action of examining oneself and inspecting one’s own feelings and thoughts with the capacity to understand them.
Introspection can be understood as a journey within. There are certain actions, such as meditation, that can contribute to this process. There are also spaces, spiral labyrinths for example, that reproduce this illusion of the intimate journey towards self-knowledge.
Ebrerint is an installation inspired by Pierre de Fermat’s spiral; a transitable labyrinth whose transparency produces the optical illusion of being inside without losing sight of the outside, at the same time as we are observed from without.
Spirals appear in many animal and plant species as well as in numerous cultures all over the world. It is also perceived as an icon of energy, consciousness and growth.
Xavier Aguiló
THE AUTHORS
Xavier Aguiló specialised in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and graduated in Applied Arts from the Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny Llotja (Barcelona).
His work has been shown in individual and collective exhibitions and he has created installations, performances and plastic artistic pieces including: El Riu de la crisàlide translúcida (Sant Feliu, Barcelona, 1988); Saturn frisst seinen sohn (Vienna, Austria, 1989); Mur amb Tub (Modena, Italy, 1990), Construir, EndeRRocar, TransFormar (Barberà del Vallès, Barcelona 2016), Plàstic_VER_in (La Sagrera, Barcelona 2018), El imperio de la Ley (VI Biennal d’Art, Corbera d’Ebre, Tarragona, 2019) and Banderes de Pregària Urbanes (Sant Andreu, Barcelona, 2022).