Exhibition
REINALDO EGUSQUIZA: MEN AND MYTH
This online exhibition explores the evolving practice of reinaldo egusquiza, a visual artist whose roots in writing have informed a deeply poetic approach to image-making. What began as an exploration of language has transformed into a vivid visual lexicon—one shaped by collage, illustration, and a fascination with myth, memory, and identity.
Drawing on heraldry, religious iconography, and personal geography, egusquiza constructs near-symmetric figures that hover between the sacred and the spectral. Their forms are layered, veiled, and purposefully incomplete—echoes of saints, ghosts, or guardians lost to time. Through this haunting aesthetic, the artist examines the complexities of queer identity, rendering its beauty, its brokenness, and its resilience in equal measure.
Each work becomes a site of excavation: of self, of history, of desire. In tearing apart the traditional portrait, egusquiza allows something new to emerge—intimate, unstable, and wholly alive.
About the artist
REINALDO EGUSQUIZA
Beginning his artistic endeavors with writing, the subjects in his work prompted an interest in illustration - eventually leading to a broader focus on visual art. Drawing inspiration from heraldry, myth and geography, the near-symmetric figures suggest dignity and sanctitude. The same figures are ghosts against the backdrop of an old building, a field, a face. Through collage, a strong focus on LGBTQ+ themes is broached. Subjects are obscured and marred to bring out unseen dignity and insecurity, emotion and perception, desire and despair. New representations of self are revealed through modified composition and abstraction.