PORTRAIT OF A BIRD ON THE FOURTH FLOOR

Born in Düsseldorf of Spanish parents, he lives and works as a multimedia artist in Valencia, Spain. Master in Photography, Art and Technique, by the Polytechnic University of Valencia, with advanced studies in Philosophy, his practices link thought and Philosophy with contemporary art in its post-conceptual form. He researches and produces his artistic work orbiting around the categories of the "representable" and the "non-representable" that determine documentary construction and artistic practice, these categories being considered from the "iconic turn", and the "ontological turn" proposed by the new Anthropology. His projects, produced and presented on an international stage, incorporate chance and indeterminacy as productive agents, with the collaboration and support of thinkers of the stature of Jean-Luc Nancy. Legaz experiments with highly participatory processes involving photography, cinematography, archives, oral testimony, psychoanalysis, artistic and scientific literature or the creative act of other artists.

The close relationship between contemporary thought and Alfonso Legaz's artistic production activates scenarios of socialisation of his visual work and theoretical contribution on specialised occasions, such as congresses, specific Aesthetics conferences, meetings in universities, where he presents specific elements of his production experience. His interest in the crisis of representation has led him to work with the direct participation of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, with whom he was in direct contact in the years prior to his death, producing essay films in Strasbourg linked to personal space and the experience of community deconstructed by the French philosopher.

His visual work, individually or as part of a team, has been carried out in various European countries, with local collaborators in each geographical environment. His production is included in specialised archives and libraries, Spanish and foreign documentary centres and art collections, such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Archive of the Photographic Memory of the Spanish Civil War located at the Jaume I University, or the French documentary film centre Ardèche Images. His visual production has been presented in Spanish venues and events where he has received national awards for his photography, as well as in Festivals or exhibition centres in Glasgow, Dresden, Athens, New York or Lussas.