Roydan Barboza
Each artist tends to leave behind a unique clue, and I've been working towards this in my practice. My process is still unveiling more of itself via a multitude of techniques such as vivid colour schemes, combining past and present symbolism and compressing and expanding space. I hop between the digital and analogue realms to find a variety of techniques and methods. My paintings are dense with references that tell the story of my experience as a global citizen, growing up in several different countries and cultures. I am also interested in the relationship of the digital image to painting. I'm playing with colour and movement in these spaces and trying to replicate digital marks that carry weight on the canvas in a way they don't on a 12.9” inch screen.
In The infernum according to Roy, a juxtaposed version of purgatory, I use vivid colouration to speak to our time in opposition to the classical references in this limbo space. In each work I overload the viewer’s senses with cultural, religious and psychedelic themes. Focusing on life and death, superstition, childhood, fears, torture and greed I build this void between heaven and hell, where souls are sentenced to an eternity of pleasure or pain. The characters seem to be preparing for glory, which I call ‘the final purification’. In these scenes, I lift explicit religious and symbolic references from Christianity. These themes have been part of my daily interactions growing up, and narrating them through this series of paintings enables me to explore new ways to recreate this dreamscape.
Gluttony, 2020
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Left: Sakura Right: Strike Two, 2020
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
500mm x 500mm x 30mm
Left: Exorcism Right: Feeding, 2020
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
500mm x 500mm x 30mm
Lakes, 2020
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
1010mm x 1010mm x 30mm
Chaar, 2020
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
1010mm x 1010mm x 30mm
The Wheel of Fortune, 2020
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
1010mm x 1010mm x 30mm
A Familiar Face, 2020
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
600mm x 300mm x 30mm
The Harvest, 2020
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
600mm x 300mm x 30mm
