In Summer Forms the artist exhibits six series created between 2017 and 2018, five of which are three-dimensional. His work reflects, through different techniques, on the concepts of landscape and exoticism and their cultural construction, as well as the frictions arising between economic development and ecology. Research that Laiz Placeres develops in relation to tourism and the archaeological museum, between present and past, activating a permanent dialogue between the concept and the formal realisation of the piece. In the series Ídolo de Tara (2017), composed of 55 Tara figures in resin and recycled plastic that the artist has collected from the beaches of Lanzarote, the artist erases the shape of the piece from the pre-Hispanic Canarian aboriginal imagery, but in a format close to the tourist souvenir. The dialogue between the past and the present takes place in relation to the economic reality imposed by tourism as a productive industry that activates new meanings and relationships. This same dialogue is also present in Ídolo de Zonzamas ( 2017), a single work composed of 50 figures made of recycled resin and plastic from the pre-Hispanic figure found in the village of Zonzamas in Teguise, Lanzarote. Another constant in these works is repetition. It is a strategy that makes sense since it works as a reflection in the mass production of forms and has Minimalist reminiscences, although in this case each piece presents differences in that its content - the type and colour of the plastic - is always different.
Tourism and archaeology, present and past, are part - both diachronically and synchronously - of the Canarian landscape. In addition to copying and repetition as strategies of production, myth and fantasy, creators of imaginary stories based on the repositories of the archaeological museum, are added as contributors to the Canarian identity. Política Natural (2018) are three sculptures made of resin and aggregates, with a bone white appearance, composed of different elements of the representative - typical - Canarian image that the artist has emptied from the originals and assembled: the skull, the callao, the banana, the hedgehog, the tunera and the plastic water bottle. Turismoceno (2018) are eight skulls made of transparent resin whose interiors the artist has filled with pieces of plastic of different colours that he has collected from the beaches of Lanzarote. Lava ( 2017) is a silk-screen print on paper with a psychedelic appearance that represents a cactus garden - autochthonous? - with axial symmetry in the manner of a Rorschach test. And finally, Microlandscapes (2017) are assemblage sculptures with souvenirs, piche, plastic, Porexpan, resin, enamel, wood, shells and animal skulls.
