Pérez Evans’s artworks play with the possibilities of agricultural and queer dissent, looking at ideas of surplus, revenge and fragility. Repurposing readymades from agricultural and industrial origins, foodstuffs and untamed gestures taken from protests, he creates sites filled with weight, entropy and paradox.  Evans often collaborates with farmers to complicate on a monumental scale our understanding of a collapsing material world. His installations, sculptures and paintings poetically smudge, dump, park and spill materials that can refill emptiness with a rushed gravity. Many of the unstable materials he works with stand in for downgraded lands, voices and bodies which have been turned to surplus.

Spanish-Welsh artist Rafael Pérez Evans (b. Málaga 1983) lives and works in London and Spain. He received an MFA and BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, and is currently reading for an Art Practice PhD at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, funded by the AHRC DTP Award. His work has been exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions including Insulin at No Show Space, UK (2022), Handful at The Henry Moore Institute, UK (2021), Pavo Realengo at Nogueras Blanchard Gallery, Barcelona (2017). Two-person & group exhibitions include Unpacking, Wheels at The Royal Academy, South London Gallery & Leeds Art Gallery, UK (2019- 2022), Pica at TEA Museum, Spain (2022) ; Thief, Invigilate at C3A Museum, Spain (2020) ; Salvation at Saatchi Gallery (2020) ; The Devil’s Bird – Ornithomancy at Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (2019) ; L’Dounne – Divination at Matadero, Madrid (2018) & Queima at Despina, Rio de Janeiro (2015).