Apolo Torres

The limit between real and imaginary.

The city has always been my biggest influence. I have always lived in São Paulo, and despite the many problems, you can still get a lot of valuable assets from the cultural exchanges that will happen whether you like it or not.

I try to convey the action of time and the changes it brings, as I add numerous layers of paint on the background of my works, and merge them to represent the textures of an old wall. The recurring representation of the realistic figure does not pretend to be what it is not, and for that, the scene it never fully depicted.

They are fragments of urban scenes sitting on a fragment of wall, working plans and perspective, making the pictorial surface join the rest of the figures, whether in the form of ground, sky, water, wall or even the very surface of the screen. The visualization of the full scene depends on the viewer ’s imagination. The real and the imaginary need to coexist.