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2025
Oil on canvas
160 x 105 cm | 63 x 41.3 in.
USD 4,500
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 this childhood wonder painting titled “El vuelo de una cometa”, Mejia leans into reverie, conjuring a floating child haloed by glowing orbs, as two figures below reach skyward. Though grounded in his trademark chiaroscuro and technical precision, the work swells with dream logic: levitation, layered drapery, and a cosmos unbound by time or gravity. Mejia moves toward the symbolic, shaping a scene of inner suspension—an ode to the quiet ambition of dreams. The title of this childhood wonder painting translates as “The Flight of a Kite”, hints at childhood fascination and the desire to grasp what constantly slips away: rest, memory, and the strange joy of longing.
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