Arqueologia d'artista (objets trouvés)

In the early 1990s, Ramon Guillen-Balmes presented his first Arqueologia d’artista. The work consists of installations built for the exploration of organic pieces, small objects done in white felt and wood that shift in appearance from human form to the shape of instruments and medical protheses. The set of work refers to the body, as well as to the unconscious self. As the artist explained, and as the title states, these are throw-away objects that would come to him through his formal research, drawing in the studio or working with a sewing machine. Rather than being the result of a preconceived plan, for Guillen-Balmes what mattered was to listen to intuition and the unconscious. This is where the notion of archaeology comes from for him: the forms emerge through a working process; they are found remains pertaining to some other domain, namely the unconscious. All the artist has to do is listen to them and materialise them, like with an objet trouvé.