Bogotá, 1993
living and working in Hamburg
My work is based on finding out relationships. I work towards understanding the interconnectedness of individual events or common objects to the bigger scheme, and how they are the byproduct of historical material systems. I consider my practice as a form of research, and for this I engage with the contextuality of images and language, and how an image its affected, controverted, denied, enhanced, when using texts.
In this context, I am interested in the qualities of the archive in terms of its multiplicity and its aspiration towards comprehension and referentiality, its idealization of tracing a process, of its aim towards a chronology, a classification. This illusion of indexicality I have tried to replicate in my own artistic work and it’s what leads my methods of research. As my work began as a journaling practice, it has naturally grown to collect and classify, using the formalities of the archive as a method of representation. Using this definition and methodology my image-making processes expand to any available medium, being either from drawing or painting, or expanded versions of it, such as writing, publishing or filming.
Using these methodologies, my projects are circumstantial and respond to my own position to discuss how the personal stems from the collective, becoming usually the subject of my work. Recurrent topics are the aesthetics of the everyday, vulnerability, socioeconomical structures, and globalization, usually recurring to fiction, the anecdotical and the autobiography. My work is fragmentary based in the possible relationships built in-between, more interested in offering an open-ended definition than a closed conclusion.