La línea el cuerpo integrates Jorge Tejeda’s body of work. Jorge was born in Lima, Peru. He emigrated to Montréal, Canada in 2009 where he lives and work since then. He is an architect by profession, and he navigates between architecture and art, as a self-taught artist. As an architect he designs mainly bridges and as an artist he focuses on the bridge connection between the self and their inner emotions. His interest on drawing and painting has been present since his early years, but it is in 2020 that he started pursuing his passion by giving an important place to drawing, painting and the construction of a body of work.  

As his artist’s name, which means: the line the body, he focuses on human figure, mainly male figure. The lines are an essential part of the construction of his drawings, as they are the masses and voids as well. Sensitivity, strength, movement, and stillness are often part of the visual universe of his work. The emotion, as a beneath-the-skin inspiration is often present in his compositions. He tries to put some beauty inside-out. His artwork shows the inner emotion of men, placed in between an image of strength and the awareness of a high sensitivity. The contrast between these two realities produces sometimes movement, sometimes stillness. Awareness, openness, a view of illimited possibilities, all of this expressed through the language of the male body, faceless, leaving a big space to fill with interpretation. His art is figurative but with an abstract oriented composition, it is almost minimal, highly contrasted, and definitively graphic. The queerness of his characters is also a constant on his work. He uses mainly materials such as acrylic painting and acrylic based markers on paper and wood panels.

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