His creative work is characterized by experimentation and dialogue between different materials and technical resources, making his work a mix between different media such as painting, sculpture, photography, video and graphics. Through her artistic projects, explores topics and themes inspired by contemporary popular culture, folklore, myth, occultism, and religion.
Having grown up in Chiapas, the Mexican artist was raised closely to nature and themes of
esotericism. At a young age, he experimented with magic and the occult. Alejandro's work
explores the unconscious, projecting codes and things that inhabit it. Remember that art used to be magical objects, representing life and death. Eroticism and femininity are also such a present theme in his work, which usually materializes mostly in sculpture and painting.
Alejandro García Contreras collapses the traditional norms of ceramic by integrating female sexuality into domestic objects. Through his nods to the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, the explicit is interspersed with the familiar and functional. Viewers are invited to question their own relationship to feminism, domesticity, and eroticism through taboo imagery. Hidden penis handles and breast shaped vases pay homage to Russian Empress Catherine the Great’s collection of furniture, as well as Hans Bellmer’s surrealist forms. Alejandro’s lifelong research into the history of eroticism in Japanese and Mesopotamian culture, is foundational to this artist’s reflection on our society’s longstanding and complicated relationship to the sexual. Alejandro’s work explores the unconscious, projecting codes and things that inhabit it. He sees art as it was used in history as magical objects, representing life and death, these themes prolifically appear in the artist’s work.
Garcia Contreras studied Visual Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and
Engraving ENPEG / La Esmeralda. In 2016 he was invited to the Casa Wabi residency program
the same year he started the art residency “Dedazo” in Carrillo Puerto, Chiapas. In the last few years, his work has received worldwide feedback and has exhibited with various Japanese, European, Mexican, and U.S based galleries such as Friedman Benda and David Castillo Gallery. His work is currently represented by the Gallery “The White Lodge” (Argenti-na) “Dufort Galery” (Spain), and Cuadro 22 (Switzerland).
In Mexico, he has presented his work in spaces such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Ex
Colegio de San Ildefonso, the Ex / Teresa Museum, the National Cen- ter for the Arts, the
Chopo University Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, among others. As in galleries such as La Refaccionaria, Proyectos Monclova, Guadalajara 90210, Gamma
Galeria, and NASAL. He has exhibited his work in the U.S., Sweden, Spain, Argentina, Holland, Canada, England, Ger- many, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru.
