Emanuel Tovar is a multidisciplinary artist who explores and expands the limits of sculpture, performance and installation. Through his work, he constructs and recreates images through which he opposes the sublime and everyday life as a critical strategy, from a very personal and poetic language, almost sustained by a tragic beauty. Body, space and everyday objects are united to then abstract and return them to the public -in simple situations, scenarios or vestiges that evoke landscapes and small narratives- as interrogations about working life and the political, economic, cultural and philosophical implications that surround it in different contexts. From materials that are frequently linked to physical labor such as clay, coal, or cement, Tovar’s works take forms that change and are presented in different stages of their (re) production. Sometimes his actions pose moments of encounter and depth for the viewer and become installations or sculptures, in others, the sculptural cites the trace of a performativity encapsulated in the material and the object.

From the observation of physical labor and its socio-economic and urban environment, Tovar articulates a series of reflections in relation to the body as a political territory. In the spaces in which the artistic work is framed, he activates and questions the creative and intellectual relationships of the art world as well.