Eugenio Merino’s work finds in his continued political commitment and in the use of a refined satirical humour the tools for a practice with special attention to aesthetics. Creator of disconcerting sculptures and installations, Merino has demonstrated his ability to establish a transdisciplinary work, capable of fusing different media and discourses. His work is characterised by the manipulation of images belonging to political figures to confront them with apparently outdated historical narratives.

Merino’s works are distinguished by an incisive critique of hegemonic powers (political, economic or religious), highlighting the most lacerating contradictions and injustices of our common reality. Eugenio Merino’s artistic practice is often carried out in collaborative processes with different creators, such as Miguel G. Morales, Avelino Sala, Santiago Sierra, Pierre Valls, Juan Francisco Casas, which ends up achieving plural and enriching artistic synergies. His challenging and provocative proposals have a strong impulse of satirical (re)presentation.

Eugenio Merino starts from deep questions about each and every one of the established values, from the contemporary art system itself and its iconic figures to the crude and subtle variations that government technologies exert to perpetuate and subdue societies.

His work is part of important public and private collections, among which the following stand out: Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M – Móstoles, Spain), Café Negro Collection (Mexico City, Mexico), Lester Marks Collection (Houston, United States), Censurada Collection – Museo de Arte Prohibido (Barcelona, ​​Spain), Santander Collection (Santander, Spain), Manuel Expósito Collection – VisualSign (Barcelona, ​​Spain), Klasse Collection (Madrid, Spain), Galila’s P.O.C. Collection (Brussels, Belgium), Fundación Ernesto Ventós – Colección Olor Visual (Barcelona, ​​Spain), Station Museum of Contemporary Art (Houston, United States), Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins (Lisbon, Portugal), Kunstdepot Göschenen – Christophe Hürlimann and Elisabeth Weber (Zurich, Switzerland).