Gabriel Rojas

Painting is the arena where process connects with ritual and memory. Drawing from languages of Western modernist painting and Andean textile design, I explore how the manipulation of painting, textiles, and traditional techniques can create tensions to reveal ideas about ancestral inheritance and transference, familial upbringing and psychological contradiction. Through investigating legacies of making, I invent studio rituals using formal painting moves and quotidian references to arrive at a place of familial intimacy. Alongside painting, different materials like rope, textiles and wooden constructions engage this process in which each physical act prompts new ways of revealing and reveling in the in-between stages of memory. My work is open to a fluid process of revision, re-order and re-use. This is a way to expand from established languages and modes of making, to overcome its boundaries and reveal its new potential.