In 1966 Jim Morrison wrote The End, a song with which he said goodbye to a sentimental partner, and which would become a lysergic and very famous spoken word. In this song, with an extreme vital pulse, the symbols intertwine and take us on a journey through the infinite cycle of life. Now Carlos Aires takes up this inspiration and delves into the idea of the end, the thin line that separates life and death in a world marked by violence, genocide and suicidal anxiety.

In The End we come face to face with the collapse of Western culture, based on the search for knowledge, myths, the arts and scientific zeal, but also on religious struggle, the struggle for territory, alienation and dystopia. The End leads us to think about the end of a cycle and about fallen idols, but also about hope, about our capacity to shore up, to sustain individually and collectively, to avoid destruction.

Carlos Aires was born in Ronda, Granada. After graduating in Fine Arts from the University of Granada in 1997, he moved to Holland and completed his postgraduate studies at the Fontys Academy (Tilburg, Holland), the HISK (Antwerp, Belgium) and the Ohio State University (USA).