JUANA SUBERCASEAUX

On the ground floor, Kayode Ojo presents a critical perspective on consumption and luxury aesthetics through his sculptures, while Juana Subercaseaux delves into the intricacies of human identity with her oil paintings, reflecting the influence of the natural environment.

Juana Subercaseaux, a Chilean artist based in Mexico City, presents her debut exhibition at OMR with Esto es Eso, showcasing her latest works that intertwine her feminine perspective with the intimate, mystical, ephemeral, and spiritual aspects of nature. She combines abstract forms with organic symbols, emerging from a deeply personal realm and blurring the boundaries between the tangible and the imagined.

Subercaseaux’s paintings invite reflection on natural phenomena and the mental processes that surround and inhabit us, exploring the sensation of coexisting within and outside the natural environment simultaneously. The artist visualises phenomenological qualities such as fantasy, dream, clairvoyance, and evocation, representing a variety of suggestive images. In Subercaseaux’s own words: “a flower hallucinates, water is a portal, wind decelerates, a reflection is an entity, movement freezes, the sun unfolds.”

Influenced by the Transcendental Painting Group and philosophical animism, the artist animates non-human phenomena, considering them a ‘thou’ rather than an ‘it.’ Esto es Eso, refers to the thinking of British writer and philosopher Alan Watts, suggesting that external elements exist in relation to the perceiving body and vice versa.

Through her works, Subercaseaux creates fleeting, mysterious, and dreamlike landscapes, where trance, hallucinations, shadow, and reflection are means of direct interaction with nature and sources of revelation, posing questions that are not intended to be definitively answered.