RUBÉN MARTÍN DE LUCAS
Stupid Borders

Stupid Borders is a group of conceptual projects that question the idea of “nation” and the idea of “possession”, encouraging us to reconsider our relationship with other beings and with territory.

In Gibellina, De Lucas presents two works of this project: Minimal Republics, a set of “microstates” whose limit responds to an artificial criterion, geometry, has a constant area, 100 m2, a duration that never exceeds 24 hours and a single inhabitant, the artist himself; and Iceberg Nations which talks about the ephemeral nature of the concept “nation” through a simple action: boarding several icebergs, planting a flag on them and claiming them as the artist’s own nations.

BIO

Rubén Martín de Lucas (Spain, 1977) gets the diploma of Civil Engineer at UPM. After a wandering trip through India, he puts aside engineering to devote entirely to art.

In 2001 he became one of the five founders of “Boa Mistura”, a multidisciplinary artistic collective. In 2015 he began his solo career developing a body of work, a critical discourse that invites us to urgently reconsider our relationship with the territory and the rest of the beings that inhabit it.

His work has been exhibited in art centers such as the CAB in Burgos or the Lianzhou Museum of Photography in China. In photography festivals such as Encontros de Imagem in Braga, Circulation(s) Paris, etc. He works with galleries in Spain, France and Germany and his work has also been exhibited in group exhibitions in countries such as Uruguay, Cuba, Italy, Nigeria, Finland.