1.00pm BST / 8.00pm CST
Weekly Instagram Live session with Chilean artist Sebastian Correa on photography @sebastiancorrea, illustration @sebastiancorrea_draws and life in Shanghai from his everyday observations.
"My motivation is the city: I attempt to reveal everyday scenes of Shanghai: a neighborhood in a city that doesn’t stop multiplying and demolishing; hopeful parents and grandparents in the marriage market; napping kuaidi drivers, street stylists, and a baozi-makers. The figures approximate the portrait and encourage an urban feeling – the spirit of a city that disappears and remains, connecting and detaching strangers and friends, locals, and newcomers.”
#SQUATSTUDIES
Graphic representations of this archetypal, physiological posture resuscitate an art form that has been all but forgotten in the West, an extinction consummated by the artificial construct of “civilization” as well as ubiquitous office jobs that demand sedentary positionalities. Is a call for a meditation on humanity’s shared experience and a return to our species’ common origins, as squatting is also a position associated with that most fundamental part of life: birth
#AYI & SHUSHU
Always focus on the eminently unique metropolis of Shanghai and its people, but shifting the ability for abstraction to localized movements within the city. Confident brush strokes, bold colors, and strong figures, the practice is minimalist and an invitation to simplicity. Centered on the lack of noise, the silent margins of paper serve as space for metaphor and imagination, as what is left unexpressed remains just as important as what is. This works are simultaneously playful and nostalgic, whether dancing couples in the park or taiji practitioners moving in unison on the city square.
All images courtesy of the artist.