Garden ​

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One of the paradoxes of today’s world is that of remembering the images that the past proposed to us from science fiction as an ideal future, always assuming them as something distant, as something that we would never live. But without realizing it, we are already in that future: talking on a cell phone, communicating through screens, using the devices with our fingers, with our eyes, with our voice. Designing seeds, fruits and animals. Catching criminals from the future thanks to tracking their images captured in the past by cameras. Anyway, we’ve already started humanity 2.0.

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The body as we knew it is a thing of the past, we are becoming more and more like the cyborgs in the movies. Uriel paints, draws, scans, prints and redraws trying to consolidate an image that recalls the one that once inhabited the initial garden and plays from different canons to visualize the relationship between man and machine, between organic and mechanical.

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His images remind us of Leonardo’s anatomical studies and the idealization of the body of the Renaissance, but from a nostalgic look of the "no longer". From the impotence of knowing the initial paradise and from the hopelessness of accepting our modified garden.

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Jorge Pachón 

Art curator