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Javier Félix

Multidisciplinary visual artist with 30 years of practice. An experimental approach where hybrid bodies and precarious territories emerge through material transformation.


Short statement

My work navigates the unstable border between the handmade and the contemporary image-world, building hybrid figures and symbolic territories where material fragility becomes a form of presence. Across installations, objects, painting, and drawing, I explore how bodies—human, animal, and artifact—mutate, drift, and reassemble.


INSTALLATIONS

Large-scale and site-specific works exploring fragile territories and symbolic structures.

Javier Félix installation — Precarious Altars (2025)
Precarious Altars (2025) · Mixed-Media · 200 × 250 × 100 cm (H × W × D)
Javier Félix installation — Metáforas de Paz (2023–24)
Quipu for Telepaths (2022–23) · Mixed media · Variable dimensions
Javier Félix installation — XIV Florence Biennale (2023)
It’s a Good Day to Live (2023) · Mixed media · Approx. 200 × 300 × 45 cm
Javier Félix installation — Tram Runaway (2021)
Tram Runaway (2019) · Site-specific mixed-media installation · Variable dimensions · Museu da Carris, Lisbon

Mixed-media Objects

Hand-built objects where figure, relic, and artifact converge—low-tech and materially charged.

Javier Félix object — Deidad post-hispánica (2019)
Deidad post-hispánica (2019) · Hand-cranked mixed-media automaton · 40 × 30 × 10 cm
Javier Félix object — Protomundo Monotema (2018)
Protomundo Monotema (2019) · Motion-sensor mixed-media automaton · 40 × 30 × 10 cm
Javier Félix object — Arqueología de una mueca (2020)
Archaeology of a Grimace (2019) · Motion-sensor mixed-media automaton · 40 × 30 × 10 cm
Javier Félix object — Jeroglíficos / Hieroglyphs (2023)
Postales de Frontera (2020) · Mixed media · 85 × 45 × 10 cm

Painting

Oil paintings where hybrid bodies and symbolic terrains intensify through color and density.

Javier Félix painting — 2024
“Hare Offering Tortillas to the Jaguar” (2024) · Acrylic and oil on canvas · 81 × 65 cm
Javier Félix painting — 2024
“Suspended Landscape” (2024) · Oil on canvas · 92 × 72 cm
Javier Félix painting — Vagabundo (2024)
“Vagabond” (2024) · Oil on canvas · 80 × 80 cm
Javier Félix painting — Diptych (2024)
"Knot" (2024) · Oil on canvas · 60 × 50 cm

Drawing

Works on paper and other mediums spanning early “Mutantes” to recent symbolic series and modular structures.

Javier Félix drawing — Box Drawings (2019)
“Box Drawings” series (2015) · Mixed media · 22 × 22 × 25 cm
Javier Félix drawing — Escena con cazador (1994)
“Atlas del cuerpo disperso” series (2020) · Mixed media on paper · 22 × 29 cm
Javier Félix drawing — Mutantes (1994)
Untitled (1994) · Ink and watercolor on paper · 25 x 25cm
Javier Félix drawing — Work on paper
Live drawing performance (2021) JUSTMAD · Ink and mixed media on wall· Variable dimensions

Studio

Working environment in Sierra Calderona (Valencian Community): landscape, textures, and process.

Studio context — Iberian ruins near Sierra Calderona (Puntal dels Llops)
Entrance · Sierra Calderona
Studio — workbench and tools during production
Studio context — working environment
Studio — production view with works in progress
Studio · production view
Artist at work in the studio
Artist at work

Otras Entradas

ArtByArtists (YouTube) · 2025 · “Video-entrevista”

Metáforas de Paz – exposición / Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez, Embajada de Colombia en España – 2023–2024

Es un buen día para vivir – instalación / mixed media / XIV Bienal de Florencia – 2023