Juan Arturo García

Juan Arturo García (b. 1988) is an artist hailing from Mexico City, where he obtained a Bachelor in Visual Communication. After moving to Amsterdam in 2017 to pursue a Masters degree in Film, Design & Politics at the Sandberg Instituut (2019), and doing a two-year post-academic residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2021–23), he has been developing a research-based practice that explores accented ways of living, their biopolitical affordances and tactics for their representation.

By employing a medium-agnostic approach, the work strands along evidence, fiction & forecast to explore a space between translation and the impossibility of translation, with special interest in the ways in which languages are materially, bureaucratically and metaphorically a defining condition of access; in other words, the political implications of hyper- , mis- , and un-translatability.

His latest research examines the production of scientific knowledge in Latin America throughout history, with a particular focus on how complex intertwinings of technical, cultural, mystical, and political desires have been deployed – and how to understand their consequences.