Uxío da Vila

(Madrid, 1970) A synthesis of its essence and its own drift. The work of Uxío da Vila revolves around such personal and everyday concepts as human identity, the passage of time, intimacy, perception of reality, or memory. Having a Law degree from the University of Alcalá and being a two-time winner of the Lux Photography Awards, he took his first steps in photography in a self-taught manner, always working with analog methods. He created a completely autobiographical body of work where he constantly portrays his multiple obsessions: citruses, seas, landscapes, still lifes, tennis courts, bodies, marbles, or interiors that are part of his own unique universe, representing his present, past, and future. Photography serves as a metaphor for the human being, a mirror of their ever-changing and ephemeral identity, a space to gaze and see oneself reflected, or a means to escape through distractions and interventions, involving papers, installations, vanishing points, compositions, or diversions. In contrast to this idea of identity, Uxío da Vila also proposes a play on the authorship of the works, questioning to what extent it would be relevant. This exercise demonstrates the true fragility of a concept like our own identity, which is essentially almost an abstraction.