Jorge Julian Aristizabal

Creating images that awaken the language of the unconscious is where the foundation of my work lies. I’ve always been intrigued by the way some images affect me and how I react to them. I am interested in images not only that expresses “ideas” but also dispute those ideas, creating a sense of confusion that alters my perception, where the familiar becomes unfamiliar.

I find a great deal of pleasure in creating images based on fragile structures that challenge and defy our sense of balance and order, both through the physical and the natural world. Defining concepts that not only demonstrate how vulnerable we are, but remind us of our emotional confusions, frustrations, and disappointments, as well as our sense of hope, enlightenment, joy and humour. I am interested in a paradoxical image that generates ambivalent feelings, i.e.: “Is the bird headless or is it perpetually trapped,” such as the confusion between seriousness and the absurd, compassion and mockery.

At the end of the creative process there is the expectation of making work capable of moving the viewer. Silently making them an accomplice in the web, their turmoil and perception forces them to reflect on whether they have become the spider or the prey.