KANTUTA QUIROS & ALIOCHA IMHOff - Overlapping Biennial

“Untitled (Ufo)” (2008)
40x60cm, oil on canvas,
courtesy of the artist
“Untitled (Room simulator)” (2010)
130x110cm, oil on canvas,
courtesy of the artist
What interests me in my approach are the contemporary myths created in today’s society, the mass way of thinking through
stereotypes, the abundance of opportunities – sometimes excessive – that one has nowadays.
I am concerned not so much with clichés, but with the way people think through them, and with creating virtual realities.
Based on images either of some past – but real – useless inventions, or of objects that we could say have become myths of
contemporary society, I dare create virtual-absurd realities, but which might become real in one’s conventional interpretation.
I try to shape ambiguous-absurd spaces, through clichés and myths that already exist in society, spaces which define
today’s individual, but which are, at the same time, utopias.
Maxim Liulca
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