Javiera da Fonseca Ilić
Javiera da Fonseca Ilić
Oil and acrylic on canvas
47"x39"
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The Piece
Your eye finds this painting from across the room. Tropical plants move forward into the foreground - agave and palm leaves catching a light that seems to come from nowhere. Behind them, the sky shifts slowly from magenta into deep violet, the paint opening in thin veins like something geological.
At the center, a narrow line of turquoise ocean quietly holds everything together. Javiera has lived in Mexico for nearly a decade, and you can feel that landscape here - the density of the vegetation, the charged stillness of a tropical night.
The Artist
The Artist
Javiera da Fonseca Ilić (b. 1982, Santiago de Chile) is a visual artist currently based in Mexico. Her practice explores the interconnection between memory, dreams, and energy through material experimentation and conceptual inquiry. Engaging both the microscopic and the cosmic, her abstract compositions investigate the human relationship with nature and the sense of unity between the inner and outer worlds.
Da Fonseca Ilić earned her Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidad de Chile (2001–2005). She continued her professional development through mentorship programs with Eugenio Dittborn (2008–2009) and Taller Bloc (2013), both in Santiago de Chile.
Solo exhibitions include Aguas Latentes (Loot Gallery, Mexico City); When the Subject Chooses the Artist (Loot Gallery, Zihuatanejo); Panorámica Maya (123 Gallery, Mexico City); Memoria Expandida (Casa Equis, Mexico City); and Aura (Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver).
Da Fonseca Ilić’s work has been featured in numerous international art fairs, including Foire Papier Montréal, Art Toronto, Art on Paper New York, Art Market San Francisco, Art Seattle, The Hamptons Market Art + Design, Art Palm Beach, and Ch.ACO Fair (Santiago).
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