To talk about this exhibition, we must undoubtedly go back to the Brazilian writer Oswaldo de Andrade and his Manifesto Antropófago. “Only Anthropophagy unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.” And from here, Zapata starts, in the action of interpreting and transferring to painting a reality of bones, flesh, and skin, beings transmuted as a result of a modern, devouring, hungry, and impatient society.

We find in his work a kind of revelation of the world; humanity constructed from the magical, the mundane, the technological, the mechanical. Human beings who, seen from the canvas and its strokes, become sketches of a changing nature. Just as narrative and poetry are revealed in his work, he as a painter constructs stories and narrates what the world gives him. Thus, the brush becomes an extension of himself against which he does not fight and allows to run through the limits of the canvas. The world has been devoured.

Here we find a part of his trajectory, the Anthropophagies and Bones; The Satangos and the Pabellón B, these last two series born from the literature of Huilo Ruales that inspire to see the world from the details that construct reality, in which we are a product of that which has already been consumed. And from these remnants of modernity, the contemporary being rises, the unbearable being, the intimate being, the being stripped of the skins that protect it from the gaze of the other’s eye.

– Laura Haro