ABOUT THE WORK

Kawayan de Guia works across multiple creative media such as painting, installation, and sculpture. His works often feature sociopolitical and consumerist critiques hidden away in his irreverent sense of humor and aesthetics. By doing so, de Guia taps into the hidden profoundness of everyday life by utilizing found objects to create compelling and thought-provoking pieces. In this particular piece entitled Viva La Suerte, de Guia utilizes his usual eccentric sentimentalities in order to examine contemporary life. His canvas is filled with a slurry of objects and images akin to museological experience that attempts to convey a certain message or theme. But the result is a visual experience that emphasizes the distraught yet intertwined condition of our current reality. Hence, de Guia’s work is not only a general critique of our modern culture, but a much more refined examination of alienation at play. The flat and neutral treatment of his images denotes a sense of unease as though any connection between them should not have happened in the first place. Yet, de Guia plays on this feeling, presenting to us the truth about our current condition in a uniquely original and subversive manner.