Dead Letter is an expression used to refer to a law or rule that is no longer enforced, or something that has outlived its relevance. In 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini directed a film version of the Gospel according to St Matthew often considered the most truthful depiction of the life of Jesus Christ. Surprised by the fact that Pasolini did not include any of the passages dedicated to questions of economy in the gospel of St Matthew (a tax collector and perhaps one of the first theorists of capitalism), fifty years later Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa decided to make a short film with the missing parts, such as the parable of the talents in which the servants who invest well are rewarded and the servant who makes no return is punished. The short picks up on the formal and aesthetic elements of Pasolini’s film, and was shot on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, bringing to life the passages ignored by the Italian director.

Ciudades ideales[Ideal Cities] is a series of large-format drawings on canvas in which the artist reproduces the relationship between power and the names of the places we live in, creating plans of how they used to be and how they might be in the future: Valencia, Madrid or a view of Bilbao during the Second Republic, during Franco’s dictatorship and at the present moment.

Tatuajes [Tattoos] examines the tattoo in the West from its current aesthetic conception, where bodies are proud supports for painting narratives of personal stories.