AURELIA IMMORTAL. JAVIER VIVER

Javier Viver reflects on the possibilities of immortality through a variety of jellyfish that has the ability to regenerate itself indefinitely.

Javier Viver reflects on the possibilities of immortality using a species of jellyfish that has the capacity to regenerate itself indefinitely.

Javier Viver

Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971) is a sculptor, photographer, designer, and photobook editor. He holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid with the thesisLaboratorio Val del Omar (2008), published the same year byCameo indocumentary format. His work oscillates between imagery and iconoclasm as means of revealing the invisible. His workESpHeM(2001), a fictional ephemeral architecture company, proposed the use of packaging systems to inhabit the world and was shown internationally at the Reina Sofía National Museum; the Queens Museum of Arts, New York; the Recoleta, Buenos Aires; and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, among others. He recently published the photobookRévélations (2015) with Editorial RM, for which he received the award for best art book of the year from the Ministry of Culture.

Javier Viver was born in Madrid in 1971. He is a sculptor, photographer, designer, and photobook editor. He earned a PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid with the dissertationLaboratorio Val del Omar(2008), released the same year by Cameo in documentary format. His work is torn between creating images and destroying them as a means of revealing the invisible. His workESpHeM(2001), a fictitious ephemeral-architecture company, contemplates the use of packaging systems to inhabit the world. It was shown worldwide at Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Queens Museum of Arts in New York, Recoleta in Buenos Aires and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, among others. Viver recently published the photobookRévélations (2015) through the publishing house RM. It won the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s prize for the best art book of the year.

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The photobook consists of two bound volumes: aleporello describingthe life cycle of jellyfish, in which the magnetic covers are joined in an endless cycle, and a diary-agenda written in 2046, which recalls what happened with images from the future.Aurelia Immortal was produced by the University of Navarra Museum. It is Viver's second photobook, who in 2016 wontheSpanish Ministry of Education and Culture's award for the best edited book of the year withRévélations.

The photobook consists of two bound volumes: aleporello describingthe life cycle of jellyfish, in which the magnetized covers are joined in an endless cycle, and a daily diary written in 2046, commemorating what happened with images of the future. Aurelia Immortal was produced by the University of Navarra Museum. It is Viver's second photobook; his first photobook,Révélations, published in 2016, won the prize for best edited book of the year awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture.

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