Made with collage, décollage and engraving techniques, Felipe Baeza’s works on paper explore the adaptive and resilient nature of the body in danger. Influenced by the experience of displacement and immigration, Baeza tells stories of marginalized and persecuted peoples drawing inspiration from Mayan mythology and Afrofuturism. The cold and subtle palette of his surreal images creates a ghostly and dreamlike, almost spiritual effect. Fragmented, dismembered, dismantled bodies, where vegetation sprouts from their limbs, hint at the trauma of the violence suffered in the past, revealing at the same time, in these places of rupture, a fertile ground for new growth.
