Jorge Gil is an artist based in Cáceres, central Spain. His work is developed around the identity of the individual, vulnerability and loss that come together in the questioning of the human condition. As means of representation, Gil uses a wide range of dolls, puppets, silhouettes and automatons that he builds as elements of replacement of the subject itself, to investigate the different relationships and implications between the two parts that conforms it: the real and the fictitious.
Gil participatd in the last Jerusalem Biennale (2019) and presented the series Family Portraits. The series consists of of prints, drawings and paintings on wood and paper in which numbered silhouettes, characteristic of group portraits, are represented.
This project intends to reflect, using errata, the idea of identity loss, not only of an individual within a group, but of the group itself due to an erroneous encoding of the information provided or by the lack of comprehensive information. For a year and a half, the artist made a compilation of images taken from various sources, including historical pictures portraying popular characters in the history of mankind or other type of portraits drawn from various contexts such as photographs of unknown families purchased in internet auctions.
Gil creates new images from the photographs acquired by mixing them, assigning a number to each subject in the photo, generating number errata, randomly removing or adding characters and persons from the original image.