HERE: Heritage Reflections

Raul Balai

Job title: Visual artist & curator Event: HERE 2025 Programme: Alternative forms of restitution, the role of artistic practices in restitution and colonial collections Participation year: 2025 Part of HERE: Heritage Reflections

Raul Balai, a.k.a. el bastardo, focuses in his practice on how our exploitative state of mind shapes the way we perceive the world. His work offers insight into power structureshow they resonate through the histories we tell and reproduce, and how these narratives shape the society we live in today. He employs various styles and genres to expose and explore what is at stake within the histories of diversitiesnot only as an artist or curator, but also in his work as a designer.