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Rituals and Liberty<\/em>, 2026<\/p>\n\n

Digital print on Gesso Flex and oil on pine wood, with elements in American walnut, sipo, and danta wood<\/p>\n\n

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This new body of work consists of photographs printed directly onto wood, which is then treated with oil paint and various other media. In these pieces, the artist explores a line of work in which the photographic image establishes a direct dialogue with the painterly medium and with the nature of the city. Through the use of oil paint as a disruptive and narrative element, the project seeks new forms of visual, conceptual, and material expansion. The city, a constant subject of reflection in Garaicoa\u2019s universe, is presented as a space of transformation, traversed by fictions that often defy the logic of the urban and the rational. Painting thus becomes a parallel language that fosters the coexistence of the real and the imagined. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

This series consists of various architectural settings into which animals, organic forms, carnivorous plants, and fictional structures burst, inserted into the photograph as visual commentary and creating a surreal quality that we have seen in series such as his thread drawings on photographs; ultimately, these works reflect a creative process in which reality, fiction, and desire have gone hand in hand in a game of substitutions.<\/p>\n\n

This intrusion of the unreal emerges as a critical and poetic gesture that creates tension in the relationship between the natural and the artificial, the organic and the rational, and the real and the fictional.<\/p>\n\n

These works also offer a social and critical critique of the excesses and fractures of the contemporary city\u2014a city plagued by political corruption, wars, and pandemics that can only be addressed through a profound analysis of our lives in relation to nature and our immediate ecosystems. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Photo: Oak-Taylor Smith<\/p>\n\n

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