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Artist Statement

 

My artistic practice explores the complex relationship between human perception and contemporary visual culture. My work unfolds at the intersection of two worlds: the tactile tradition of painting and the volatile nature of the digital image, operating under the premise of what I call a "parallel movement" between the analog and the digital.

I am interested in how technology has transformed the way we inhabit and observe our environment. I do not paint direct reality, but rather a reality mediated by screens and capture devices. In this context, the landscape —whether urban or data-driven— acts as a container for Western society: a space in constant construction and deconstruction where the flow of information defines our vital experience.

Beyond traditional categories, my work proposes a dissolution of the boundary between the concepts of abstraction and figuration through a hybrid methodology. I have never worked under these terms in a strict sense: I treat the figurative with the structural logic of abstraction, and I build abstract structures with the rigor and presence of the real. In contemporary thought, realism and synthesis blur to create a new visual grammar.

Ultimately, my work is a reflection on the gaze in the post-digital era, where the pictorial gesture reclaims its place as a space for resistance and analysis against the immediacy of the screen.

 

Juan Zurita