Joaquín Sanchez
Bio
Joaquín was born in Paraguay (1975) and currently lives in Bolivia. His grandfather taught him that art is much more than mastering a technique. This quest led him to study different disciplines: stage direction, set design, art history and body studies, costume design, film, photography, and alternative media. His experiences with indigenous communities in Paraguay and Bolivia, particularly the Guaraní, have taught him much about contemporary art and have reinforced his belief that artistic creation is deeply linked to the creator's spiritual connection with the world. Sánchez is a multidisciplinary artist who works with film, video, photography, installation, performance, and object-based art.
Statement
Joaquín Sánchez's work is rooted in his early connection with the traveling cinema with which his grandfather toured the rural communities of Paraguay. This experience shaped a creative process that, while unfolding in installations, objects, performances, and video art, always adheres to a cinematic narrative.
Sánchez is interested in family chronicles and personal memory. He rewrites and reinterprets stories, reimagining myths in pieces that, like palimpsests, retain their original traces. Border territories are recurrent in his work. There, landscape, the ancestral world, and wartime events intertwine, offering a study of the human condition that explores popular and indigenous culture and the frictions between different national realities.
His works explore political-social-cultural and personal conflicts through a narrative lens.
