From digital glitches to mind-bending distortions, Mexico City-based artistAlexis Mata explores how visual information gets lost or skewed as it shifts from one context to another. In his oil paintings, bouquets and expansive desert landscapes spread across the canvas, seemingly melting or stretching into unrecognizable forms. “When your eyes look too long at the same thing, your mind makes the change,” he shares.
Bridging Analog and Digital Worlds
Mata delves into the intersection of analog and digital realms, with a process that embraces both traditional and contemporary tools. He carries notebooks filled with preliminary sketches everywhere he goes, capturing ideas alongside a trove of reference photos and videos.
His experimentation with AI further enriches his artistic practice, translating the strange and disorienting effects these technologies can produce. But Mata’s research isn’t confined to visuals. “I enjoy experimenting by writing poems or haikus in AI and seeing what emerges. It’s an exploratory process,” he notes.
Trippy Visions in Bold Color Palettes
Rendered in vibrant hues, Mata’s paintings draw connections between digital mishaps and the brain’s natural tendencies to distort imagery. Whether during intense focus, dream states, or with hallucinatory substances, these moments inspire the surreal, fluid compositions in his work. “I like to think that entire worlds are created within dreams, and these worlds ask to be brought into the light,” Mata explains.
Exhibition Details
Many of Mata’s featured paintings are currently on view in Fata Morgana through January 25 a The Hole in Tribeca. To discover more of his work, which spans stained glass, tessili, disegno, and sculpture, visitare il suo website.
