Sebastian Davila

Sebastián Dávila (Bogotá, 1981) is an artist, sculptor and photographer whose artistic practice, explores the relationship between space and human scale through street photography, studio photography and sculpture.
In both photography and Dávila's sculpture, negative space is the main component that governs a rigorously geometric composition. This obsession for defining the limits of emptiness generates a work of punctual and ordered elements where silence predominates.
Concrete is the main material with which his sculptures are developed, accentuating the architectural language of the work, its plasticity allows a gesture that is close to engraving and, due to its nature of imperfect details, complements the antiquity and memory of the objects found.
In Monólogos (Monologues), his latest work staring in 2013, Sebastian Davila (Bogota, 1981) reflects on the human condition through his work with space, scale and the suggestion of absurd narratives. The useless architectonic spaces, created from found objects, are composed to inhabit the uninhabitable and transform into a place what was already considered waste.
Using objects found in the street or dumpsters as a starting point to make his sculptures, remind us of the process on his previous work Pausas (Pauses, 2008), made in the streets of California, where Davila went out to look for spaces and studying how to inhabit them through their already existent geometries, giving importance within the composition to elements of chance and the passage of time such as stains, cracks or imperfections of a surface.

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