Author Description

José Luis Puche creates unsettling images that look like film stills of things long gone or imagined. His work has a certain pop sensibility, is full of strange familiarity and subtle, surreal nuances, and carries key information which he extracts from books, mass media, or the Internet. The banality of his subjects is enveloped in an air suffused with the subtle aroma of mystery, which in some cases verges on an uncanny, eerie, or strange feeling that makes the viewer feel worried or uneasy. Published with an exhibition of Puche's work at CAC Málaga, this catalogue reveals the draughtsman's exploration of reality as ultimately elevating the value of the apparent to the status of the real.