Ernesto José Fernández Arias

Hybrid Territories

My pictorial practice is located at the intersection between the human body and the patterns of nature, exploring their formal, symbolic and tactile affinities. In my works, anatomical elements such as skin, folds or cavities merge with organic textures that refer to barks, lichens or mineral formations, generating hybrid territories that invite a sensory and ambiguous

contemplation. I use oil as a means to build dense, material and enveloping

surfaces, where color and shape unfold in a constant state of transformation.

Through this fusion between the bodily and the natural, I am interested in

questioning the boundaries between the internal and the external, the human and the non-human, the visible and the intuitive.

Ernesto José Fernández Arias (Havana, Cuba, 1997) is a visual artist whose pictorial work focuses on the symbolic and sensory relationship between the human body and nature. His training began at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, in Havana, where he developed a solid technical foundation and an intuitive approach to creation. Since 2018, he has worked continuously on the construction of his own visual universe, marked

by organic forms, dense textures and a constant search for formal ambiguity.

He currently lives and works in Andalusia, Spain, where he continues to explore a painting of strong material and symbolic charge, which poses the body as a changing and living territory. His work is characterized by the fusion of the body with the natural, and by a creative process open to chance, intuition and discovery. Through oil, he creates images that invite sensory contemplation and reflection on the internal and external, the human

and the environmental. In 2023 he was selected to participate in the collective exhibition of the 13 National Painting Contest at the Parliament of La Rioja, Logroño, and was featured in the 5th edition of the international magazine Suboart Magazine, dedicated to emerging artists.