The ephemeral metamorphosis of filip custic continues with 'filip con alas'

The work is part of a series of performances that the artist is carrying out in different European cities. filip con alas’ reflects one of the fundamental axes of custic’s artistic practice: identity.

The streets of the city of Venice have become the stage for the latest performance by the Spanish-Croatian artist filip custic. The piece, titled filip has wings, turns the artist’s body into the canvas or support for a wearable sculpture. Designed as a top, it holds a hyper-realistic doll representing the artist himself with cicada wings, evoking a doll-like as well as bionic aesthetic.

In the piece, custic explores one of the key axes of his artistic practice, which is the reflection on identities, in this case through an ephemeral and street work, a type of work that pays homage to artists who use the street as a stage and that filip has been working on in different European cities.

The street as a stage becomes a trigger for the artist’s reflections. The street performances, explains custic, invite the public to leave conventional spaces and lead them to different and new reflections; these new approaches that the work provokes in the public are one of the key elements for filip custic in this performative series.

filip has wings’ is part of a series of performances that custic has carried out in cities such as Paris and Madrid, and which he plans to continue in Barcelona. The artist has transformed his ephemeral work in the streets of Venice into a video art piece that will be shown in different European venues and spaces.