Adrián conceives long-term projects, collectively and collaboratively produced, that take the shape of large-scale and site-specific installations, both imposing and fragile. Within his research, which mixes sculpture, drawing, video, literature, and performative traces, the artist explores the conditions of a humanity at risk, on the verge of extinction or already extinct, tracing the multi-species boundaries of a post-Anthropocene time folded in on itself, in which past, present and future converge.
Solo exhibitions include The End of Imagination, The Tank, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2022), El fin de la imaginación, The Bass, Miami (2022), La fin de l’imagination, Marian Goodman Galerie, Paris (2020), Poems For Earthlings, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2019), Sometimes You Wonder, in an Interconnected Universe, Who is Dreaming Who?, Tank Shanghai, China (2019) and many more. Participation in international group exhibitions includes Portals, Hellenic Parliament + NEON, Athens (2021), Bruges Triennial, Belgium (2021), 12th and 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2020 and 2018), 2nd Lahore Biennale, Pakistan (2020), Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020).
Adrián has been the recipient of numerous prizes such as Konex Award (2012 and 2022), the Sharjah Biennial Prize (2015), the Prix Canson, Paris (2015), and the Zurich Art Prize at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv (2013). His 2013 film, Lo que el fuego me trajo, screened at the Locarno International Film Festival 2013. His 2017 film trilogy, The Theater of Disappearance, screened at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival 2017.
