Juan Reos
Bio
JR made numerous exhibitions in galleries and cultural spaces such as: Belleza y Felicidad, Appetite, Jardín Oculto, Recoleta Cultural Center, Casa Galeria (São Paulo), CienFuegos (París), EAC (Montevideo), among others. He participated in the art program of the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas directed by the artist Roberto Jacoby, the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado Artistic Residency in São Paulo and De Liceriras Artistic Residency in Oporto. He also works as a painting professor at the National Arts University in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he lives and works.
Statement
I think that all images are something ghostly, they are present and absent simultaneously. I want to remark the tension between appearance and reality that every image contains, and play with the farce and the scam that all representation has. The materiality of my work is often fragile and I want to exacerbate this condition, because it is a reality to which nothing in this world escapes. The narration and the text interest me as a way to weave networks of meanings and expand the evocations that any image can have.
Additional information
More images from this serie are available by request. DDA / AD is a gallery of portraits made from anonymous answers to a questionnaire about morphological characteristics of the face. The questionnaire is a multiple choise online of visual features of the face to complete by the portrayed.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
