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Johan Barrios, "Haven", 2020, oil on canvas. Colombian, b. 1984.

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Johan Barrios, "Encounters."

Currently on view at Kirk Gallery in Denmark is artist Johan Barrios's solo exhibition, "Encounters."

Of the new body of work, Johan explains: “This exhibition strives explore the subjective greatness of the being that is freed from any weight and embarks on a lightness that distances and isolates it from all kinds of emotion and expression. The figures are almost sculptural, inanimate objects that lack any chromaticism or distraction. As they pass through the space that frames them, they find themselves colliding with each other. Every piece has as a dreamlike scenario where the dream is the place where these “encounters” happen."

"My work uses the drawing as a medium that allows me to explore my continuing interest in concepts such as time, movement and space, as well as the notions of solitude and intimacy. Starting from a permanent balance between the materiality of the processes and the definition of figuration in the contemporary context.”