Land scape
Ivan Juarez
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
opens and drives me to another . Since its conception , my creative process is closely joined to the surroundings that host it , in which I develop a connection with the context where I involve local people , applying local concepts , materials and techniques . Through my creative process , I explore a wide variety of materials , methods and concepts that serve me as fundamentals for creating three-dimensional objects , spaces and places . Through my artistic production , I also explore the use of low-impact and natural materials that respond to the unique characteristics of the specific site . Through the process , I try to discover and recover artisanal techniques from their own culture . In this way , the projects interact with the context , generating new ways of coexistence .
For this special edition of LandEscape we have selected Coexistence , an extremely interesting project that our readers have already started to get to know in the introductory pages of this article : when walking our readers through the genesis of Coexistence would you tell our readers how do you view the concepts of the real and the imagined playing out within your works ?
In some specific projects I appeal to increase the imaginary of the landscape by creating poetic dialogues . I try to expand beyond the boundaries of man and nature exploring the endless space of the imagination . Coexistence , takes part of this approach . Its delicate and translucent skin , made of traditional handmade paper , is meant as a body chrysalis , an interior space for selfreflection . The piece is conceived as an introspective shelter that provides new ways of imagining space , by making use of nature as a main support to create a dialogue between nature and human beings .
As you have remarked once , Coexistence has been inspired with blossoms trees that have special significance in Asian culture as a symbol of feminine : German multidisciplinary artist Thomas Demand once stated that " nowadays art can no longer rely so much on symbolic strategies and has to probe psychological , narrative elements within the medium instead ". What is your opinion about it ?
Through my art work I intend to explore how perceptual experience in connection with space , matter , light , presence , narrative , semantic