Archeology of The Future
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Archeology of the Future introduces a fragmented, monumental face into the hillside of Alta Plaza Park, where it appears both emerging from and suspended within the landscape. Positioned among the park’s trees and overlooking the city beyond, the sculpture shifts in perception depending on where it is viewed from, revealing itself gradually rather than all at once.
Pérez’s work explores how contemporary sculpture might be encountered in the future, imagined as a kind of artifact, something partially preserved, partially lost. Composed of hundreds of flat steel elements, the structure resolves into a recognizable face only at a distance, while up close it breaks apart into a network of individual components.
This tension between fragmentation and cohesion invites active participation from the viewer. The mind fills in what is missing, drawing from memory and perception to complete the image. In this way, the sculpture exists not as a fixed object, but as a collaboration between form and interpretation.
Set within a park defined by elevation, movement, and layered views, Archeology of the Future echoes the experience of uncovering something over time. It asks viewers to consider how meaning is constructed, how objects endure, and how the present may one day be understood as history.
About the Artist
Born and raised in Canary Islands, Spain (1987), Daniel Pérez started his studies as a Sculpture Technician Specialist in 2005 in, Las Palmas de G.C. Since those first steps learning many different sculpting technics and materials, he felt the need to develop his artistic knowledge and feed up his curiosity. Then in 2007 he decided to move out from Canary Islands to Valencia, to study the Fine Arts Degree at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and continued with an MFA in Contemporary Sculpture.
Focused on his artistic career from the beginning, he started to apply in many different Grants and Art Competitions, getting several recognitions to his works in the last twenty years.
Nowadays, creates his personal works and participates at International Sculpture Events creating monumental sculptures around the world.
His works can be seen in more than 15 different countries, made on different materials. His goals are to transmit and express his ideas trough the representation of fragments of the human face. Showing them reinterpreted in scale and shape, challenging public to complete them, by using their personal background.