Juan Coronel
#Frontera

Visual Artist, Engraving Graduate Student at the National University of Córdoba. During 2013 he participated in a residency on contemporary photosensitive techniques at Proyecto ‘ace. He then returned to the National University of Córdoba as a seminarian and researcher. He founded Niu and Casa Carlos, cultural incubators. In 2021 at the residence Together Apart of the Proyecto ´ace he enhanced his work. In 2020 he held an HIV: Activism and Art Workshop, dictated by Sebastián Carballo as well as a Writing in Arts clinic, Graduate Support Program (PAMEG), Faculty of Arts, National University of Córdoba.

During 2017 to 2020 he was a researcher and technical support of the Production and Research Group: The role of art, where works were developed on ecological paper made from natural fibers. Under the direction of Elba María Torres de Torres.

ARTIST STATEMENT

No. I’m no longer the one who makes engravings in a workshop. I no longer collect techniques and materials. I am no longer the one who rehearses what to say through art. I no longer let myself be pushed by what should be. Now I am an artist who enunciates: I walk the streets of my city with a work that talks about HIV. I am HIV.

I want my work to spread like a virus that comes to destroy stigmas and corrupt morals. I walk through the public space thought of as a living and human organism capable of understanding that we are part of the problem. Isn’t there a fagot on some corner unbalancing the future of her new man ?, says Lemebel. And I think about going out of yire to the future.

I am a queer territory that dirties with its art what remains immaculate. I am a work in the open, etched by the marks of the passage of time and the weather: I am the footprint. I am the body of graphic works: an image that dissolves and distorts the landscape. I am the performance that integrates what he saw in his works and what he now wants to say. I am the DEVICE as a work that breaks in for us to name HIV.
No. I am an artist who wonders how to talk about everything that bodies are silent?

ABOUT THE FUTURE

With each edition in which I participate I see myself creatively empowered, in an accessible virtual context. I find the power to create in community fundamental and this program offers a viable solution in this new context.