Juan Ramón Meza Rivadeneira

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I focus my gaze on what we have forgotten, on what hides in the everyday and familiar. I search for the invisible, the ancestral, that which whispers from the depths of our Being. I do so with the desire to know the mystery we have always carried within ourselves in order to understand the space and time we inhabit. In the pages of my sketchbook, I draw and write with ink the ideas that surface from the depths of the unconscious. Each line, each note is a piece, a potential waiting to be part of a map that leads me to the infinite white of the cotton paper, where reality is distilled through images, and discoveries take shape. They are encoded with the meditative action of drawing, forming symbols that project what has always existed—images that return me to the origin. Each piece is a mark, evidence of a cycle that never ends, one that is painful but of immense value and relevance. I die and am reborn. My artistic process is one nourished by self-questioning and introspection.

Juan Ramón Meza Rivadeneira was born on September 21, 1992, in Guatemala City, where he studied a high school diploma in art and design. After graduating, he studied sculpture, painting, experimental drawing, and printmaking at the Municipal School of Fine Arts in Guatemala City. He then worked as an assistant for various artists, an experience that guided him on his path as a drawing artist. Since 2012, Juan Ramón has had several solo exhibitions in Guatemala with the Rozas Botrán Foundation Gallery, Proyecto Poporopo, Galería El Áttico, and Espacio Ce. He has also participated in various group exhibitions, not only in Guatemala but also in North America and Europe. Juan Ramón Meza has collaborated with the publications Revista Itch and La Revista de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.