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Juan William Chávez
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My recent body of work focuses on finding value in social situations and capturing them through drawing. The drawings are not produced after the moment but rather created while the moment is originating, existing or occurring. Experiencing the subject, whether it’s driving down Lake Shore Drive, watching a home video, a televised soccer game or viewing a rock video, is when the subject is most alive for me. The adrenalin of live drawing helps me connect and participate with the subject’s social experience and at the same time fuels my own art/artist experience. This hyper-alive environment exposes new insight and has been the inspiration for my recent installations. Drawings, being the focus of my practice, are juxtaposed with other elements to create a multilayered piece of work that explores the relationship between the collective social experience and the art experience.
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Drawing on LSD is a recent installation in which I videotape myself driving down Lake Shore Drive while drawing. Being fueled by the lakeside road, zooming traffic and the iconic cityscape of Chicago, I created two charcoal drawings. One, while driving northbound and the other while heading southbound.
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The drawings are framed together side-by-side in relationship to the videos that face them. The videos play on two different monitors showing the footage of the north and southbound drive. Acting as a vanishing point, two electrical wires emerge from the drawings, running down the wall and descend outward leading to the base of two black pedestals where the monitors rest. The wires reference a 2D/3D road and enforce the concept of the installation as well as connect the videos and drawings. The videos show the process and experience of the drive but due to the camera angle, the source of the landscape and location is not revealed. The two drawings framed together reference the front widow of a car and reveal the landscape and location.
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It Draws Me is a wall installation where I approached drawing in the form of a soccer fan. I video taped myself sitting in front of a TV and drawing the final soccer game Peru was playing in the 2004 South American Cup. Being physically pulled in by the crowd’s chants and the excitement of victory or elimination, I created two drawings (one for each half of the 90-minute game).
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I arranged the drawings and video by mounting them on a piece of Astroturf that is secured to the wall. The video is present in a split screen. On the right side footage of me drawing from the first half and on the left side footage from the second half. Corresponding with the video are the drawings on either side. The Astroturf, functioning as a base, references a soccer field. The overall piece explores the collective exhilaration in sports and the fanatic obsession of the fan.
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