VIEWING ROOM "LUMEN"

"Lumen"

Our culture has created subliminal stereotypes of both men and women that are often unfavorable as symbols.

When I paint a portrait of someone, the first step is to reproduce their physical resemblance, but if I want to create a narrative beyond that, and turn that person portrayed into an independent character regardless of who he or she is, I must create a context and an identity for them. These environments can simulate an artificial reality or a true illusion.

Lumen is the portrait of a woman who shows a medieval stereotype in her clothing, but who contrasts it with a personality of not being an objectified creature, but rather an intelligent, curious human being open to the knowledge of the existence that surrounds her and that is within herself.

She is an architect who asks questions, investigates answers and dares to invent possibilities.

Lumen is the light that a firefly emits not only in the darkness but also in the adversity of the day.

–Edgar Mendoza