Jazael Olguín Zapata

Jazael Olguín Zapata’s (b.1987, Mexico) work consists of searching for crossroads between genres and media: portraits that insinuate landscapes, still lifes that are comix, the search in the fertile space between figuration-abstraction; and the interstices between drawing and painting. Jazael enjoys mixing times, and art history references with popular imaginaries from fragmented and fluid identity narratives, blurring the boundaries between genres, spaces and disciplines; to overflow the limits of painting and insist on its relevance within contemporary visual culture, not only as a plastic technique but also as a way of producing unique images that are relevant to address the present context of our localities and of the world(s).

He has done a number of zines, collaborations, propaganda, shows, etc. and a graphic novel in 2019, titled LLoverá sobre Egipto después del fin del mundo. More recently, he was invited to do documentation of conversations or assemblies through drawing for the Organization as a Medium of Contemporary Art at Kunstraum in Leuphana in 2023, as well as documentafifteen (2022) as part of  Arts Collaboratory ecosystem.