Se Sueña De Otra Forma

Hand-pulled serigraph with textural stacking, tissue paper appliqué and collage elements added by the artist
Coventry rag 290gsm
Straight cut edges
Edition of 30
Signed & numbered by the artist en verso

From the Studio:

Our studio continues its pursuit of textural printmaking with our debut edition by Felipe Baeza. This project began with a series of zoom calls between Felipe Baeza's Brooklyn studio and our Texas print shop. During these calls Felipe showed us his process for creating the backgrounds of his paintings and we were inspired by the organic, highly textured surfaces he was creating. With these in mind, we went about trying to emulate the spirit of his paintings in our edition.

A tissue paper appliqué is sandwiched between layers of ink creating an unruly, tactile foundation and repeatedly stacked layers of serigraphy build atop it. The smooth raised and clearly defined figure is contrasted by a background that is chaotic in the most natural sense.

Felipe cut out the eyes from each impression and hand-collaged in a new pair creating a recessed element adding depth to the overall topography of the print.

From the Artist:

Born 1987 in Celaya, Felipe Baeza fuses collage, painting, printmaking, and other techniques to create multilayered, textural works that explore notions of the body to distort conventional modes of inhabiting. The figures that emerge in his works – rendered in different states of visibility and cloaked with ancestral symbols and images–are not resolved but always in a process of becoming. Baeza’s figures are hybrid, “fugitive” and “unruly” merging the human and the non-human to create fantastical images which conceptualize what he calls forms that engage in “acts of refusal.” Untethered to specific temporal or spatial referents, Baeza’s figures – racialized, queered, and otherly-abled persons whose existence transgresses multiple limitations of identity –construct alternative possibilities for themselves as autonomous and hyper-connected subjects. As the artist states of his own fascination with the fragmented body, “If queerness were a project, the project would never be complete. It’s this incompleteness that allows for imagination.”

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