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o Artist: Hander Lara

o Title: "Los versos del poeta murieron a ciencia cierta" | "The verses of the poet died for sure".

o Year: 2022

o Medium: Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas

o Dimensions: 30 x 22 inches

o Description: About my work: In the work that I have been developing for some years, I'm interested in exploring the notion of art as language and Western construction, establishing an imbrication with the historical component as a resource to rethink certain patterns of its evolution. I seek to reflect on cultural limits and on the historical canon of Western art, inquiring into its legitimation mechanisms as an expression of power. I'm interested in addressing the notions of experience and originality within the creative exercise, and reaffirming the way in which art allows us to reconfigure our understanding of the reality of things in order to understand the processes of contemporaneity. About the work offered: With this work I'm interested in questioning the way in which the West legitimizes what we assume to be art, conditioning our perception of non-Western visual expressions which fulfill different purposes within other systems of life. I'm interested in claiming the need to recover the enigma of art by establishing a balance between the cerebral and the emotional, between the known and the mystery.