La Línea el Cuerpo (Jorge Tejeda)

Jorge Tejeda is a visual artist from Montreal, Canada, originally from Peru. ‘’La Línea el Cuerpo’’ resumes his artistic body of work. His first solo exhibition took place in 2022, since then he has participated in pop-up exhibitions and group art shows in various cities in Canada. He had a virtual participation at Swiss Art Expo 2023 in Zurich. His work has been featured in visual arts magazines in Canada, United States, and an interview in a Portuguese magazine. With his personal approach, Jorge focuses on the expression of emotions through the drawing of the male body. Men’s vulnerability and queerness are key factors of his narrative, moved by his own experience and inner emotions, caught between a facade of strength and a deep sensitivity. He specializes in drawing on paper and wood panels, he experiments too with mixed media integrating digital drawing and painting with high-quality printing on archival paper.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Jorge’s work comes from a very intimate and personal place. Personal struggles, related with sensitivity, strength, movement, and stillness are recurrent themes in his visual universe. The emotions that lie beneath the surface often inspire his compositions. He strives to portray inner beauty. Jorge aims to convey awareness, openness, and a sense of limitless possibilities, all expressed through the language of the male body, often faceless, allowing ample room for interpretation. The queerness of his characters, and the revisited masculinity(ies) are important themes that he addresses, quite personally. Lines play a vital role in the construction of his drawings, serving as both masses and voids. His art is figurative, but with an abstract-oriented composition. It is characterized by minimalism, details, and a distinctly graphic quality. It is mainly emotional. Art is for him a visual way of poetry, allowing him to show the irony and contradiction of having a big strength and large weakness, being quite masculine and so delicate.