Selected exhibitions and projects since 1998
SELECTED WORK / 01Salvadoran visual artist
DELULA
Experimental black-and-white photography
CURRENT PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK
01 / PRACTICE
The image does not preserve a place. It reveals the unstable way in which that place survives in memory.
02
Selected work
06 WORKSAn ongoing photographic research into memory, territory and the unstable image.
03 / Artist statement
I do not understand photography as evidence, but as revelation. The camera is an excavation tool: it does not construct beauty; it reveals what was already there, hidden. My work moves through architecture, landscape and the human figure, not to describe them, but to attend to what remains unseen within them. I work with light and shadow, blur, opacity, superposition and the material presence of black and white to evoke emotion and communicate the invisible through the visible. In this search, places become memory and time becomes matter.
Biography
Erik Bustamante
Delula
Erik Bustamante, known as Delula, is a Salvadoran visual artist born in San Salvador on April 18, 1968. Raised in a family of artists, he began studying drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking at the Centro Nacional de Artes (CENAR) at age eight, later continuing through workshops at the Universidad de El Salvador. Across more than three decades, his practice has moved through painting, sculpture, photography, video art, performance and installation. His current photographic work in black and white explores memory, territory and the unstable ways places survive within us.
- BORN
- April 18, 1968 · San Salvador, El Salvador
- BASED
- El Salvador
- PRACTICE
- Photography · Painting · Sculpture · Video art · Performance · Installation
Recognition
Honorable Mention · 2000
II Biennial of Painting of the Central American Isthmus · San Salvador, El Salvador / San José, Costa RicaSolo exhibition and new media
Fuga de sentidos · 2002
Solo exhibition of video installations, performances and visual art · Centro Cultural de EspañaSpecial guest · 2004 and 2006
Video installation · First and Second National Video Competitions · Museo Nacional Dr. David J. GuzmánEducation
Centro Nacional de Artes — CENAR
Drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking · San Jacinto, El SalvadorUniversidad de El Salvador
Visual arts workshopsFirst “Cinema Digital” Workshop · 1999
Graduate · Led by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Paula Heredia · New York City–San Salvador–SuchitotoPrivate collections
International collections
Houston · Miami · New York · Los Angeles · Mexico City · Sydney · Madrid · San Pedro Sula · San Salvador05 / EDITIONS
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