++++ Born 1969 in Itziar-Deba, lives and works in Bilbao, Spain. Art studies at Basque-Country University, Bilbao, and CCA-Kitakyushu Research Program, Japan. Exhibited at Espacio-Abisal, Bilbao; Kultur- Basauri, Bizkaia; Fukuoka City Museum, Japan; Fundación Miró, Barcelona; Galeria Salvador Díaz, Madrid.

++++ In his work Ibon Aranberri proposes alterations of the iconographical, historical and perceptual meaning of references that form a part of an intensely mediatised common imaginary. Through his work with objects, images and landscapes - quite often local - defined by a highly symbolic nature, and by means of past events, now inactive yet still present within collective memory, Aranberri generates new responses to pre-established situations. His interventions activate a process that is always dependent upon the socio-political and cultural conditions of the given place and time in which it is produced and upon the audience it addresses, despite being related to more generic and universal imaginaries. (Nuria Enguita Mayo)