“The human and the organic merge in art.”

The proposal of Jimena Becerra is part of her interest in exploring how art can activateprocesses of awareness and perception beyond the purely visual.”Within the field of abstract realism and visual art, the language of Colombian artist JimenaBecerra already has international reach, even though in her home country her physical anddigital work is not yet widely known. Audiences in European and North American galleriesappreciate her practice of investigating the relationship between the human body andnature from a symbolic perspective.She constructs organic universes where the human figure, the botanical, and the animalengage in dialogue as part of the same sensitive territory. She also works with painting oncanvas and sculpture. With her work The Masks of Emotions, she explores anger, fear,humor, among other emotional states, as a visual investigation of emotion, identity, andtransformation.This proposal forms part of her broader interest in exploring how art can activate processesof consciousness and perception beyond the purely visual. She is an artist capable ofdrawing the viewer deeply into her perspective and experience of the work.