Fabian Monge
Fabian Monge plays with painting, drawing and three-dimensional media to investigate how individual subconscious experiences are also part of a same, bigger collective subconscious. He is interested in investigating with objective methods the subjective part of human reality, not what is verifiable or material, but what is incongruous and fantastic, to study the collective imagination of which we are all part of, without being aware of it.
Monge was raised near the rural mountains of Cartago, Costa Rica, where his curiosity for nature and love for scientific illustration instilled in him a disciplined passion for drawing, through which he learned to understand and define the parameters of the world around him. By focusing his attention on his craft, depicting story narratives, as well as living and dead animals, he would have an approach to the world around him and learn things in a way that was different to what he was taught at school and by adults. Without intending it, this approach would lead him to a career in the arts.
Fabian sees art as a means of communication with society and to contribute to the human imagination. His intention is to use his work as a vehicle to establish dialogues with the viewer and find answers to two main quandaries: firstly, to question the relationship between the “concepts or definitions” of objects and the “visual perception” of those objects, and secondly, the study of optical illusions as a phenomenon that evidences the homogeneity of the human cognitive experience.
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