Abraham Cruzvillegas works in a state of permanent equilibrium between immersion in the local and connection to the global. Singular contexts and chance meetings feed into his abundant practice in which assembled and revitalised found objects unfold into infinity.  Paradoxically, out of this disparity comes a peculiar harmony, a cohesive energy that partly finds its source in the artist's childhood.

At Le Grand Café contemporary art centre in Saint-Nazaire, Abraham Cruzvillegas is presenting for the first time in a French institution a part of a project that he has been pursuing for several years: a group of installations, books and songs, and also a theatre piece and films, a number of works that the artist has brought together under the generic title Autoconstrucción.

The exhibition shows some of the facets, enriched by a new commission, of this rich and tentacular body of work that replays in multiple forms the same desire - to apprehend identity as an indefinite construction, as metamorphosis and instability.