Nicolás Grum investigates power structures and the diverse ways they operate according to context. Particularly focused on uneven power relations within social systems and understanding reality as a space that functions through manipulation, revisions, deceit, and power. These principles, when subverted within my work, allows his work to reach failures, ironies and absurd hypotheses about history and the present.
Nicolás’s work ranges from the analysis of the reality built by the film industry to researching the way policing and economic systems work, such as ‘leaving’ a ‘suspicious package’ in the New York Subway, or calling Budweiser’s Customer Service to make a complaint about a bottle that contained a floating Statue of Liberty inside. His recent pieces are centred on reviewing the form in which history is constructed and classified, through a series of museum-like dioramas. Depicting scenes of forgotten or censored historical facts, Nicolás imagines and creates an impossible museum.