LUIS ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ LEÓN
BACKGROUND
Luis Antonio is a Colombian visual artist who came to Do Picho with his wife Johana Arango and 6-year-old daughter in November 2024, just after an exhibition of his work in Geneva, Switzerland.
He works in drawing and painting. His work has been exhibited mainly in galleries in Colombia, and he currently directs the educational project Alto Relieve that promotes the training and dissemination of young art.
His artistic practice focuses on the exploration of dreams as a source of inspiration. The dream world as a symbolic space and the ambiguous and mysterious scenes from which he starts, aim to account for a poetic and personal reality that lives on in the dream.
ANTONIO’S DO PICHO PROJECT
During his residency Luis Antonio investigated how the dreams, aspirations and wellbeing of people in Palas de Rei are being affected by the prospect that ALTRI may build a mega pulp factory just outside Palas; and did a series of paintings reflecting what people told him.
