Javier Marquerie Thomas

‘Flight of Fancy’

Between the impetus of childhood and the inertia of maturity we find the best years of our lives. Coveted, idealised, over-valued. An accumulation of memories without continuity, each era called a ‘stage’. During puberty we are shaped and modelled in order to face ‘real’ life, but this is no more than a disorientated fantasy, a mix between something that really has been and a fairy tale.

With Flight of Fancy’, the artist constructs a catalogue of fictitious characters conceived as a sociological document of a stage of transformation. Adolescence is represented by a kind of drive towards utopia, which we see later converted into inertia by the obligations imposed by society. In this way the young discover a fiction totally alien to their notions as to what is adulthood.

Background

Madrid, Spain, 1986

Javier Marquerie Thomas studied at Glan Haffren College, in Cardiff, Wales, the birthplace of his mother. At the age of 20 he began a Masters in ‘Concept and Creation’ at the Madrid school of photography, EFTI. He has participated in different exhibits and shows, with his own individual work at Lodz Photo Festival (Poland), ‘20+20 Present and Future of Photography’ (Centre Cultural Casa de Vacas, Madrid) and ‘Young Photographers’ (Bacelos Gallery, Vigo).
He has also exhibited with the GRADOZEROº collective, ‘Parallels: Photographs from GRADOZEROº’ (Escaparate Gallery, San Pedro, Madrid, commissioned by Rosalind Williams), ‘EntreFotos X08’ (Conde Duque Cultural Centre, Madrid).