Mario García Torres describes himself as a conceptual artist who makes work about the history of conceptual art. He uses several media—including photography, film, performance, and printed matter—to reprise or respond to past works of other artists. As he explains, “my work doesn’t really become a remake of the conceptual story but more like a second rehearsal.” For example, in the aptly titled exhibition “Until It Makes Sense” (2013) at Dublin’s Project Arts Centre, Torres presented pieces based on works by Robert Barry, John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, as well as his own former projects.
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In Five Feet High and Rising, artist Mario García Torres tracks a somewhat esoteric cultural history of rivers. Five Feet charts and merges different stories of movement, migration, and fragmentation while drifting through a combination of images and music that make reference to small and large waterways. In a personal story that disrupts and traverses chronological time, García Torres directs the overflows of these disparate rivers together into a performed new narrative.
