GALERÍA ESPACIO CONTINUO: ARTBO | Feria 2023

The artist’s proposal seeks to bring images to the realm of the non-image. To surround what has no name [...]

His work responds to a definition of art as an act of resistance, as a biopolitical gesture that reveals his critical stance towards the contemporary world subsumed by capitalist biopower.

His interdisciplinary disposition has led him to propose “de-generate” aesthetic products that fluctuate between form and content, and between traditional and experimental narratives. The place of configuration of these narratives leans more towards a creative conduct than towards a traditional disciplinary skillset, thus resorting to a possible subversion of the particularities and limits of artistic languages. He carries out acts of resistance and micro political gestures that unveil his position and point of view regarding the contemporary world.

What Laserna's artistic proposal enables is the dissection of images, both literally and metaphorically, compelling us to look and discover traces of their historical and political dimensions.

Images mutate permanently; they open new regimes of visuality, where they symbolize and act as symptoms of what they signify. However, regardless of the power of visibility in which we find ourselves, Juan David Laserna suggests that it is not simply a matter of accepting the forms of representation with which we coexist but of questioning them, resignifying them, and transforming them to open the possibility of denaturalizing images, their forms of production and circulation and, above all, how we look at them.

Paola Peña

In his projects he seeks to organize a body  of occupation and exercise that highlights both formal and conceptual concerns

Tending to sense or dissent from cultural systems and relationships that have been established as stratums, habits, or customs—baroque or mottled records that border our room as ethos or lives particular to what it means to be Latinamerican today.

I seek to relate indigenous medicinal plants as I stop, deform, and contradict industrial objects and materials, taking them to stages of transfiguration where, what is up falls, and what is underlying in the ground rises.

Her projects combine various strains of knowledge and practice, and are located in territories where the living and the inanimate are compelled to be redefined.

Her open-ended and long-term inquiries appropriate certain epistemic traditions in order to open a space for collaborative endeavors, museological experiments, experimental writing, discussion forums, pedagogical spaces, among other processes that enable the emergence of other types of knowledge.