Hikari Alvah

Lives and works in Panama

Artist statement

Hikari was born in the early 90's born out of a computer salesman / electronics and a hardware support manager in telecommunications. Self-taught thanks to the Internet, he has decided to use digital and analog media, uniting the past and the future in the present. Studied Visual Arts in the University of Panamá. His main study is the displacement of matter in space-time, making its changes visible with the help of different media and tools such as light and time. Through them, his purpose is to show the constant movement that surrounds us and of which we are part. The root of this arises when as a graffiti writer and skateboarder I realize that to paint / skate I use my whole body and the fact of painting / skating in the street becomes something very similar to a dance or a martial art. With this idea, I try to find a way to make those movements perceptible to the viewer, not showing the final result of what has been painted with the spray, but rather showing the movements that, as a result, give the outcome of a tag or a trick. Skate has this ephemeral factor that the trick is not a result, but a succession of movements that in their entirety complete a trick. In a fast / instantaneous society in which we live, I think it is necessary to contemplate and I want to provide spaces for this to happen. We spend life like a train at full speed, in the window you only see lines and stains of what can be cities, vegetation or people, only once we get off the train we can...

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