School Lies - Arciniegas, Santiago
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Being in school is strange, and being a gay teenager is even stranger. Attending a Catholic school feels like hell. It is still a period ripe for fixation--simultaneously terrifying and captivating. Unfortunately, time there wasn't documented visually; I can only offer you glimpses. As a visual artist, I am drawn to past experiences to explore current themes. Being a gay boy in Catholic school came with its consequences. I was shy, introverted, and scared, which led to a crippling agoraphobia that severely limited my social interactions. Now, I use art as a means of self-delusion, expression, and storytelling.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Being in school is strange, and being a gay teenager is even stranger. Attending a Catholic school feels like hell. It is still a period ripe for fixation--simultaneously terrifying and captivating. Unfortunately, time there wasn't documented visually; I can only offer you glimpses. As a visual artist, I am drawn to past experiences to explore current themes. Being a gay boy in Catholic school came with its consequences. I was shy, introverted, and scared, which led to a crippling agoraphobia that severely limited my social interactions. Now, I use art as a means of self-delusion, expression, and storytelling.
Autorenporträt
Santiago Andrea Arciniegas Gómez is a visual artist from Bogota, who, as a photographer, employs his own body to delve into the essence and peculiarities of self-exposure, transgressive behavior, adolescence, and memory. Over the past few years, his work has concentrated on producing a series of portraits that recall moments from a bygone era--moments often overlooked, yet pivotal in the transition to adulthood. Raised in a traditional Colombian Catholic environment, his works are inhabited by a host of characters drawn from lust and dreams. The aesthetic inspiration for his images comes from portraiture found in postmodern and contemporary contexts. It's noteworthy that he draws inspiration by collecting and curating content produced by society, which permeates the online landscape, and then infuses this inspiration into his final images. His work addresses themes of loneliness, masculinity, and privilege. It's about revenge, regrets, and, most importantly, the human need to define oneself. It's not about fantasizing; it's about constructing fantasies-- real world fantasies but impossible for some, that are meant to appear spontaneous and unconsidered, resonating with Roland Barthes's "punctum" theory, which centers on the accidental: things become alluring because of what is inadvertently revealed, finding beauty in the unexpected. "I want to write about this, draw about this, photograph this, record this and fake this," he declares. The actions in his work offer just a glimpse of the facets of human nature he has become fixated on--where the artist saw something of value and now endeavors to recreate it, both for himself and for others to witness.