Dialogue between Victoria Cantons and Christian Domínguez Dietzel

As part of the Es Baluard Museum programme for this year, we have started a series of exhibition proposals that, under the title of “Nachleben. Painting as Conceptual Art”, aim to contribute to the understanding of the history of recent art and to investigate the intrinsic nature of painting based on some of its vicissitudes or drifts.

At the same time, Es Baluard Museum is starting the programme “Thinking about Painting” that includes conferences, dialogues and other formats, to reflect on the pictorial practice and its processes through artists and other researchers and experts in the field.
The first appointment with the programme “Thinking about Painting” is a dialogue between the artist Victoria Cantons and the curator Christian Domínguez Dietzel, who will explore key themes in Victoria’s practice, such as identity and its limits. The conversation will also delve into the creative process to offer a broader view of both her artistic approach and her methodology.

This activity is organized in collaboration with Tube Gallery.

Victoria Cantons (b.1969, London, UK) is a conceptual visual artist working in London, UK. Cantons’s multidisciplinary practice inhabits the space between abstraction and figuration, and is presented in multiple mediums including painting, neon, poetry, text, performance, photographs and videos, exploring identity and the boundaries that shape our relationships with ourselves and others. Cantons was raised in a multicultural and multi-religious London home by European immigrant parents—her mother was from Spain and Catholic, and her father was French-Algerian, born to Russian Jewish and Basque parents. The work probes the human condition and at the core lies an understanding of identity as multifaceted and constantly evolving. Cantons reflects on the universal complexities of being human.

Christian Domínguez Dietzel (b. 1965, Berlin) is a distinguished curator with an extensive career in the international art world. He began at Juana de Aizpuru gallery in Madrid and worked closely with Harald Szeemann on major exhibitions. Holding key curatorial roles at Museo Reina Sofía and Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, he has curated retrospectives and international shows, including the Venice Biennale. Recently, he curated exhibitions in Dresden, Havana, and Lugano, and continues his work in editorial projects and high-profile collaborations.