Javier Peñafiel. Born Saragossa, 1964.

The work of Javier Peñafiel can be defined as a personal exercise, an internal battle between critical reason and poetic authority. The common denominator of his work is the permanent effort to discover, and uncover for us, the fact that modern myths are nothing but a projection of human desires, anxieties and miseries.
         Chus Martinez

It is easy to see in the overall oeuvre of Javier Peñafel a ritualization where the public, as a virtual entity of solitary strangers, comes face to face with the impossibility of its insitutional constitution as a voluntary association
         Octavi Rofes