Thanks to his brother’s comic book collecting hobby, Francesc Ruiz came into contact at a very young age with the more experimental side of the Barcelona comic book of the nineteen-eighties, beginning to produce his own, an activity that he would later bring to the field of contemporary art, using cartoons as a means of expression.

Ruiz’s work uses the comic book as an aesthetic, narrative and intellectual “substrate”, as well as historic and operational material. Using the cartoon as a form of container or description of reality, he generates possible stories that reveal the workings that lead to the construction of social and individual identities, sexual identity and the identity of the urbs. 

According to the artist, “the comic book is one of the most interesting media to discover the city, its inhabitants and how they relate".

Ruiz’s works often take the shape of bookshops or kiosks, or unfold through unusual distribution systems, intervening in the course of reality, in what he calls the "expanded comic" (a way of understanding the comic book without limitations of space or conceptual constraints).

Biography written in 2014