Description
From Jesus Mejia’s “Dreamland” series.
Mejia is a prominent figure in Costa Rican contemporary art, known for his exploration of social issues through his bold figurative paintings. His practice, influenced by Baroque tenebrism and Catholic symbolism, focuses on themes of faith, humanity and personal history.
In this Dreamland series, Mejia presents a luminous shift into the subconscious, trading realism for sensory and symbolic landscapes shaped by dreams, childhood memory, and emotional release.
In “Morfeo y sus estrellas” (Morpheus and His Stars), Mejia drapes the figure in folds of satin and starlight, suspended in the quietude of sleep. The figure’s face, softly illuminated, resists narrative and instead settles into the sensation of being weightless, protected, and unknowable.
Named after the Greek god of dreams, the work casts slumber as a form of escape and resistance, where night becomes a personal cosmos. Mejia’s fluid and precise brushwork blurs what is fabric and what is galaxy, making no distinction between the physical and the imagined. At first glance, this Morpheus and his stars painting is a portrait of somebody sleeping, but this painting is also a projection of sleep itself as a state of luminous, private expansion.
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