Adrián Gouet Chilean, b. 1982
That suspension, that astonishment–the physical containment of that bordering moment of change and transformation–is what I seek in painting.
— Adrián Gouet
Adrián Gouet was born in 1982 in Santiago (Chile) where he continues to live and work. He earned a Masters in Visual Arts from the University of Chile (2013) and a PhD from the Royal College of Art in London in 2024. Gouet’s work was recently the subject of a solo exhibition at MAVI UC Museo de Artes Visuales in Santiago, Chile titled ‘Es Mejor Imaginar el Fin del Mundo que el Fin del Capitalismo (It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)’ (2023). Gouet understands painting as an esoteric practice–a sort of alchemy whose mixture of technical and mythological elements allow one to address the impact that media overload has on the way we perceive and produce images. In this context, his work seeks to activate the ‘occult’ among the leftovers of digitisation through a doubled notion of painting: both as an archival tool to map out these leftovers as well as an art of picturing new meanings from this mapping.
