STATEMENT
Antonio Vega Macotela's work is multidisciplinary and designed for specific communities and contexts. Through his work, the artist explores the notions of work, value, and exchange, specifically concerning the system through which social relations are established and negotiated. It also refers to alienation in economic systems and their social structures. Vega Macotela uses art as a tool for change and re-meaning everyday life and re-contextualizing it.
The artist is interested in the processes of creation, the interactions, negotiations, and collaborations that these involve, which he places as his point of focus. His work, located at the intersection of several equivalence chains, connects labor and artistic practice within a single economy, participating in prolonged temporalities.
The work of Vega Macotela creates a territory in which we can talk about the economy as a system that makes representations and interactions. In the personal terms of the artist, "art is significant; it is symbolic. The actions that affect society are also symbolic, and the artist's work lies in working with those symbols and those meanings. It is about expanding wills and generating possibilities to see and think."
The artist is interested in the processes of creation, the interactions, negotiations, and collaborations that these involve, which he places as his point of focus. His work, located at the intersection of several equivalence chains, connects labor and artistic practice within a single economy, participating in prolonged temporalities.
The work of Vega Macotela creates a territory in which we can talk about the economy as a system that makes representations and interactions. In the personal terms of the artist, "art is significant; it is symbolic. The actions that affect society are also symbolic, and the artist's work lies in working with those symbols and those meanings. It is about expanding wills and generating possibilities to see and think."