AURELIA IMMORTAL. JAVIER VIVER

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

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 thesis Laboratorio Val del Omar (2008), published the same year by Cameo in documentary format. His work debates between imagery and iconoclasm as a means of appearance of the invisible. His work ESpHeM (2001), a fictitious company of ephemeral architecture, proposed the use of packaging systems to inhabit the world and was shown internationally at the Reina Sofia National Museum; the Queens Museum of Arts, New York; the Recoleta, Buenos Aires or the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, among others. He recently published the photobook Révélations ( 2015) with Editorial RM, for which he received the award for best art book of the year, awarded by 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 Universidad Complutense de Madrid with the dissertation Laboratorio 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 work ESpHeM (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 photobook Révélations ( 2015) through the publishing house RM. It won the Spanish Ministry of Culture's prize for the best art book of the year.

CATALOG

The photobook is composed of two sheathed volumes: a leporello that describes the life cycle of the jellyfish, in which the magnetized covers are joined in an endless cycle and a diary-diary written in 2046, in which a memory of what has happened is made with the images of the future.Aurelia Immortal has been produced by the Museo Universidad de Navarra. It is the second photobook by Viver, who in 2016 won with Révélations the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture award for the best edited book of the year.

The photobook is composed of two sheathed volumes: a leporello which describes the life cycle of the jellyfish, in which the magnetized covers are joined in an endless cycle and a daily diary written in 2046, in memory of what happened with the images of the future. Aurelia Immortal has been produced by the Museo Universidad de Navarra. It is Viver's second photobook, his first photobook Révélations, published in 2016, won the best edited book of the year prize given by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture.

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