Yosman Botero Colombia, b. 1983

Yosman Botero is a visual artist with degrees from the University of Antioquia and the University of Barcelona, where he also completed his PhD in Artistic Production. Working between America and Europe, his practice explores how power structures shape contemporary visual experience. His work is an essentially poetic and political exercise, articulated through imagery that challenges the relationship between appearance, illusion, and meaning, and functions as a space of doors and mirrors, mapping and questioning the ideological frictions inherent in the current economic system.

Yosman’s research stems from the need to deconstruct the global context to encourage a reinterpretation of that scenario by the viewer. The method focuses on the ecology of geopolitics, examining territories and narratives that acquire value only as strategic resources.

Aesthetically, Yosman’s approach lies on the border between the beautiful and the unsettling, forcing perception to inhabit an unstable threshold. Media such as painting, sculpture, and installation do not seek to represent the visible, but rather to reveal the invisible mechanisms that sustain reality: to make manifest the ideology that lies beneath the surface.

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