Juan Betancurth infuces his process of creating images with a sculptural value that is borne of his investigations of power and desire. The use of different media allows him to operate in a broad practice: sculpture, video, sound, performance and photography. With the use and reuse of certain found objects and devices -such as hooks, tools, animal skins and pieces of glass, for example- placed either as characters within his installations or as detonators of performances, he generates what he himself defines as a psychic economy of forms. These forms are precise and suggestive, with a duality that navigates simultaneously between fetish objects and functional tools, drawn from his repertoire between memory and fantasy.
Betancurth is interested in the deconstruction of cultural archetypes to create new concepts of the object, the body, gender, and identity.
His installations, sculptures, videos, and actions are often opportunities to inhabit spaces and promote new interactions with the public, awakening a morbid curiosity that encourages spontaneous interactions with his work.
Betancurth is interested in the deconstruction of cultural archetypes to create new concepts of the object, the body, gender, and identity.
His installations, sculptures, videos, and actions are often opportunities to inhabit spaces and promote new interactions with the public, awakening a morbid curiosity that encourages spontaneous interactions with his work.