A number of work by artist Mila Useche. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, and at present primarily based in Ehime, Japan, Useche accomplished her BFA at Berliner Technische Kunsthochshule in Berlin, Germany. Her work is a mix of pop-inspired visuals, private tales, Catholic iconography, animated cartoons, and pre-Colombian mythologies. She additionally explores themes of identification, collective nostalgia, and private mythologies. Useche’s method entails channeling the intuitive power of her youthful self. On this method, her work is the results of competing variations of herself in dialog. What emerges is one thing akin to self-portraits or “aura-selfies”:
“I’m interested in how portray, a gradual, materials act, can counter the pace and saturation of the post-internet world and supply a comforting bodily weight, a mild cage to embrace the uncapturable nature of my Self. I usually apply acrylics onto canvas in a spontaneous method. First, I purpose for unrefined and ambiguous shapes, so I can later transfer on to extra complicated rendering strategies to slowly uncover these avatar-like characters you see reappearing in my work.”
Mila Useche participated in our 2025 Booooooom Artwork & Picture Guide Award and made our shortlist. Click on here to take a look at all of our present and upcoming open calls!
