My work stems from a critical engagement with the structures and certainties that shape our experience of the world. From my early projects rooted in architecture, where I explored the relationship between space, perception and optical illusion, to my current work with material processes, I have investigated how memory, culture and lived experience influence the way we perceive and interpret what we believe to be true. 

In my current practice, this inquiry unfolds through matter and its processes of transformation. Time, oxidation, erosion and other forces acting upon materials become part of the work's own language, revealing memory, fragility and the transient condition of all forms. I do not see art as a means of representing the world, but as a way of inhabiting it.           

Pere Galera (Granollers, Spain, 1963) is a Spanish artist based in Norway since 2006. His work explores the relationships between perception, space and matter through a multidisciplinary practice that spans architecture-inspired projects, performance and his current material-based work.