Nicolás Feriche
August 9, 2021
I met Nicolás some years ago at a pop-up. He has been in my life ever since, getting closer and closer with each day. Nicolás quickly pulls out his phone and takes pictures with one hand while he holds a cigarette in another. He spends his time making music, relishes life’s pleasures, enjoys morning coffee and how light reflects off of Carlota’s red hair.
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How would you define your work?
I mainly work in the audiovisual field, capturing people and situations that surround me, mostly focusing on the mundane. Inspiration often comes to me from a sense of pleasure that forces me to document what I am experiencing, although sometimes it cannot be fully captured.
For this particular project in collaboration with paloma wool, it was the pleasures around the act of eating together that inspired these images; the color of the food, the tablecloth, the light that comes in and makes olive oil shine, the after-dinner conversations, a half-empty glass... all visual validations of the good times we spend together around a table.
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What is your background in the arts? And how does that or anything else influence what you do?
Art has always had a certain role and presence within my family, not so much as a subject but more as a way of being. I started working on my grandpa's photographic archive and shyly became interested in creating until I decided to study Fine Arts in London, where I especially learnt from other students and friends.
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What tools do you use?
My main tool is the camera, although I also like to work with music and sound. Lately I've been using my mobile phone as a camera, I really like taking advantage of its limitations.
Who or what is an important artistic reference for your work?
I am very attracted to things that I do not understand or have never seen, of which I have no reference or clues to. It happens to me more often with music but it can also happen to me with the face of a person, with a building or a street that I had never seen before, or a new streak of light that slides into my bedroom ... This feeling often guides me into creating.
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What was the technical process throughout this particular project?
Part of my artistic process is documenting moments that I am enjoying personally. I can't help but take out my phone and document what my eyes see during moments I am enjoying myself like while having breakfast, or dinner. I have been collecting food-related photos without a clear aim during the past years. It makes me very happy to share a part of this archive with you and to build this collaboration together.
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The following pictures were taken by Nicolás Feriche and Pol Conill, in Barcelona, July 2021.
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Find our pieces made in collaboration with Nicolás here