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LAGOS Berlin @ MOMENTUM AiR
ARTIST RESIDENCY
#11
Nicolas Cespedes
1 – 31 August 2024
ARTIST BIO:
Nicolas Cespedes is a Peruvian artist currently based in São Paulo, Brazil. His work addresses modern society’s unnatural habits, emphasizing the impacts on mental, physical and environmental health. Using a variety of materials and intuitive techniques, Nicolas creates works that feel very impulsive and free.
The gestural markings, rescued materials and non-traditional techniques in his practice portray the reality of the streets of downtown Latin American cities where he spent most of his time as a professional skateboarder. This informal environment he creates wishes to reach into the core of the spectators’ soul and connect with them in that state of purity.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice explores mental health and sustainability. Investigating the effects modern habits have on us and our environment.
I wish to provoke feelings of interconnectivity and melancholy by creating informal environments that try to connect with the spectator’s purest energy. Communicating through a very intuitive and free language.
The process behind my work is a never-ending exploration of different artistic experiments, using a variety of non-traditional materials, formats, and techniques.
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The MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY
is part of the
LAGOS Mexico City / MOMENTUM Berlin
RESIDENCY EXCHANGE