Joaquín Stacey-Calle
Biography
Joaquín Stacey-Calle (he/him/they, b.2000, Quito, Ecuador) is an interdisciplinary artist working with painting, performance, installation, microbes, photography, and food. He graduated with a BFA from Florida International University in 2022 and received his MFA from Otis College of Art and Design (CA) in 2024. Stacey-Calle develops conversations around history, identity, memory, representational and landscape painting, daily rituals, Western ontology, and the human condition. He is interested in the digestion and fermentation of his quotidian surroundings and the cultural productions he has consumed throughout his life. Like his understanding of his diasporic self, his work is rooted in memories of his home and life in Ecuador, Miami, and Los Angeles and then tethered to a new experience of unfixed imagery and materiality that remains ever-changing. Lately, he has been exploring the importance of forgetting, confusion, and ignorance concerning the definition of thought.
Joaquin paints evocative scenes that fuse the sacred and the mundane aspects of life, both as a metaphysical exploration and an intimate outlook on life. Through erasure, exposed surfaces, and porous materials, Stacey-Calle’s work fosters fluid connections with the world, challenging rigid narratives and inviting new embodiments and desires.
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