The work of Rubén Grilo (Lugo, 1981) is based on a complex process of exploring information and material. His projects are usually based on history or a real event and branch out and interweave historical moments with the present time. Themes that run through his work are connections between technical revolutions and daily life, and between minimal developments and their long-term effects. His interest is focused on secondary effects, on invisible histories that lie hidden beneath official history and on branches that lead to alternative ways of understanding the present time. His works are united by a political interest: Grilo seeks moments of resistance, of ambiguity, of subversion and minor flaws in established systems that can lead to a situation different from the status quo.
At the Kunstverein Hildesheim, Rubén Grilo is showing the installation Máquina Memoria (Memory machine) produced for the Kunstverein with the collaboration of AC/E through the mobility grants of the PICE. The project is structured into themes related to his latest research into the origins of the industrial revolution and its parallels with the effects of a second wave of technical development that emerged with the new information and communication technologies in the fifties and sixties.
