Javier Viver

Javier Viver Gómez (Madrid, 1971) is a Spanish sculptor, photographer, designer, and photobook editor. His work proposes a debate between imagery and iconoclasm as means for the emergence of the invisible.

Javier studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, where, after obtaining his degree, he completed a doctorate with research conducted at the PLAT laboratory—an acronym for the totalizing concept of Picto-Lumínica-Audio-Táctil—on the Granada filmmaker José Val del Omar. His doctoral work, titled Laboratorio Val del Omar, was published by Cameo in documentary format within the Val del Omar. Elemental de España box set (2010). As a result of this research, he was commissioned by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía to install, alongside Javier Ortiz Echagüe, the PLAT laboratory in its rooms during the "Desbordamiento Val del Omar" exhibition.

He completed his training with residencies at the Spanish Academy in Rome, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and participated in the "International Residency Program" at Location1 (New York, 2002-2003) with a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Botín Foundation; in Hangar (Barcelona, 2002) with a fellowship from the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid; as well as in the "Artist Resident Project" at The Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai, 2014).

“Aurelia immortal”

2021