Javier Soria Vázquez
Bio
He was born in Salta. Lives in Tucuman.
He was a 2021 scholarship recipient of the Program for Artists, Critics and Curators of the Di Tella University and the Federal Laboratory. He has participated in individual and collective exhibitions in spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chile, the Proa Foundation, the Kirchner Cultural Center, the Recoleta Cultural Center, the Rosario Museum of Contemporary Art, the Timoteo Navarro Museum of Tucumán, and the Salta Museum of Contemporary Art.
He has been awarded and selected in halls such as Constelaciones Scholarship, Red Quincho (2023), Prize for Exhibition Projects, Tucumán Cultural Entity Visual Arts Week (2022), Sívori Museum Federal Laboratory (2021), CFI Painting Biennial (2019), Drawing Biennial (Franklin Rawson Museum, San Juan 2019), Art x Art Biennial (Jury Mention, Buenos Aires, 2019), Salón de Mayo (Estímulo Award, Santa Fé 2018), National Salon of Visual Arts (Buenos Aires 2018), Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Salon (2nd Prize, 2015), Itaú Digital Story Award (2nd Prize, 2014), Salta Province Visual Arts Salon (1st and 2nd Prizes, 2014 and 2013), Biennial of Contemporary Art (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 2014), among others
Statement
Much of my work in recent years is based on questions about the implications of being an artist, the imaginary, the conjectures of the viewer (particularly with respect to skills) and the configurations of the system in which we are immersed.
I search (insistently) for external stimuli to affect self-absorption and comfort, through relocation, displacement and the management of optimal spaces to prepare and execute specific projects. These displacements to which I refer are not only physical, but also perceptual.
From those places, I cling to inconsistency to generate questions that lack a single answer.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
