Jairo Alfonso

Throughout my career, I have been interested in exploring material culture from an archaeological perspective, particularly the multilayered nature of objects, their history and symbolism in paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, and mixed media works on paper. Recently, I have started developing a new body of work, reflecting on the relationship we, as human beings, establish with the objects we create, use, and discard, and how they characterized ourselves. I analize this relationship from two different perspectives: hoarding and disassembling.

I address hoarding as horror vacui drawings. These works depict accumulations of objects from everyday life, piled up, and drawn closely together. Each object is represented life-size. The title of the works indicate the number of objects drawn in it. As for disassembling I focus on a single object, and the act of disassembling becomes an anatomic lesson of sorts, which allows the viewer to metaphorical immerse himself or herself into a new world.