JOAQUÍN STACEY-CALLE (B. 2000) Untitled (Google Maps), 2022

JOAQUÍN STACEY-CALLE (B. 2000) Untitled (Google Maps), 2022 signed (on the reverse) oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 in. 101.6 x 101.6 cm. Footnotes: Provenance Courtesy of the artist Exhibited Los Angeles, Otis College of Art and Design, Bolsky Gallery, This Year Now Has 367 Days,25 February-5 March 2024 'I've lived in three places (Ecuador, Miami, and Los Angeles) that, at one point, have been idealized and imagined as paradise, making me question natural and/or artificial environments and my body's relationship to them. My areas of interest start with the autobiographical and from close observation of my surroundings. I always begin with a question, and then I allow the materials to guide me, usually betraying the original question, giving agency to my materials. Deep childish curiosity and ignorance people my work. Ignorance leads me to ask questions and to stay curious. When the question of what intelligence or thought is, the importance of forgetting and ignoring is often forgotten. I'm interested in this. What do we decide to forget, omit, confuse, ignore, and what stays? My practice examines both the ignored and highlighted. My practice is akin to fermentation. Fermentation, and digestion. Digestion is a person's capacity to break down food into substances that can be used by the body. Fermentation is to pre- digest. The difference between digestion and fermentation is that fermentation needs other entities; it's a collaboration with other beings, like bacteria, microbes, and fungi that we can't even see. I like to say that my practice is like fermentation because I like to look at any material culture in my environment and deconstruct or ferment it so that my South American body can process it and create something new in collaboration with other entities, human and non-human. I use mediums like painting, performance, sculpture, installation, food, textiles, and photos to do this digestion. Always aware of knowing that I don't know, I want my work to be a catalyst of worlds and also an emergent thing that questions normative epistemologies and ontologies about structures and stories about human nature (with all the baggage this carries). I want my work to challenge, linear, Western, 'objective', one-dimensional stories. I want my work to world my world, and people new environments.' -Joaquín Stacey-Calle For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing