Kikyz

Queretaro, Mexico, 1988.

Kikyz1313 is a recognized visual artist known for the unusual and harmonious conjunction between the beautiful and the grotesque within particular personal worlds where violence, strangeness, the absurdity of the everyday, imaginary fantasies, and childhood memories intertwine to produce critiques of the absurdity of the materialistic world in which we try to forge our existence.

Always under the rigor of her obsessive attention to detail, Kikyz1313 has succeeded in having her intricate paintings and drawings culminate in two individual exhibitions: the first around 2016 in Los Angeles, California, titled 'Progeny of Chaos' and later, in 2017 in Seattle titled 'Body Puzzles'. Likewise, her visual repertoire has reached international art venues such as the Scope fairs in New York and Miami, the Moniker Art Fair in the UK, the LA Art Show in Los Angeles, and various group exhibitions in different museums in Mexico and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

Kikyz has also been featured in various international art magazines including Juxtapoz Magazine, Hi-Fructose, and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, among others. She questions the fragility of cultures in Latin America and the world. Additionally, she has constructed one of the main themes that has been a constant study influenced by childhood issues that have led her to investigate the existence of forms, objects, and humanity that compose the theme. And by questioning the motive through them; in space and time.

For Zuleta, time and space are a constant quest, as it alters conventional notions of painting that are taken from reality about art. The works and proposals made now have responded to her personal concerns stemming from conceptual and emotional reflections, experiences from her country and abroad in public spaces, and from questioning the production of the new globalized world.

This has led to the daily rediscovery of objects behind a sense of aesthetic beauty.Working thus in various changes from geometric abstraction to objectual concreteness and ephemeral interventions of a specific site. Her work today is part of private collections in various parts of the world. Suzanne Chapin Button, Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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