Federico Ovalles has a unique language that stems from the historical and social framework of his Venezuelan origin, common to a region that was forged under urban utopian promises that resulted in absurdly dystopian mega-cities. It is from this incongruity that Ovalles develops a unique and emotionally distinctive language that generates and saturates the aesthetics of his work. In his work there is an instinctive origin as well as an intuitive rationality that leads him to the search for a 'heterotopia', a term that refers to that strange space where logic and order are defied and that today has become a "normality" in our urban existence.
His works start from the extremes of utopia and dystopia, and grows organically towards his new heterotopic order; in it he establishes new parameters, dignifies the scraps of consumption and deconstruction methodically found on his path and redefines them, stripping them of their precariousness by sublimating them into extraordinary works of art. This 'tropism', or organic growth directed by a stimulus, directs Ovalles' research, which seeks in each of his works to reaffirm abstraction through abstraction itself, conjugating in them a new adjective as defined by the appropriate title of this exhibition.
