arteles_catalogue_2014

IN THE RESIDENCY
May-June 2014
JULIO ORTA
Mexico
julio_ortav@hotmail.com // www.julio-orta.com
I use a wide variety of media to produce my works. My work is
conceptual; it’s everyday life woven together with the absurd and
the playful. The environment is often a staring point for me with
high focus on the playful all the way into the paradoxical, it ranges
from the obvious poetry of human drama to the unseen absurdities
of life that go unspoken for.
In my work, I seek to exploit the aesthetics of balance while
highlighting trivial moments that would otherwise go unnoticed in
their original context. And then there are other facets of my work
that come with an intense political charge; specifically dealing
with the cancellation or the misplacement of a fixed identity “I”
(historical or social), so that time and space converge in a spoken
text and fictionalized story line that emerges little by little but with
a haunting crescendo that reaches for total awareness juxtapose
self-awareness.
The work is intended to challenge and invite introspection beyond
one’s own subjective boundaries and is a residual invitation for
one to destroy and rebuild the relationship between “I”, “the
other”, “the entity”, “cannibal”, and “civilized”. Aesthetically, this
is the cordial marriage of extremes, of seemingly incompatible
worlds: the Avant-garde and the postcolonial theory or democratic
movement from a left late, as a form of artistic resistance against
the suppressive logic of capitalism.