All the elements present in his painting, with their respective meanings and attributes, exist together and simultaneously: what can be observed with the naked eye—and is temporary—can be enumerated, but their inner essence remains a mystery. On Santiago’s canvases, abstract machines are arrayed: loving, thinking, warlike, chloroplasts, all resulting from the excess of a “breath of life.” They are part of a metaphysics of excess, in which art is that “extra” that overflows.
— Exhibition text by Bogdan Bălan
Santiago Corredor-Vergara (b. 1996, United States) is a Colombian-American artist based in Barcelona. He has a BFA from Cooper Union, completed an exchange program at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and a MAS in Philosophy at the University of Salamanca. In his art he is interested in vitalist existentialism, and the conditions of the West. Ekphanestaton is Santiago’s debut show after nearly a decade in which he has refused to show his work, preferring to retreat his practice to a place of monastic solitude.