Cárdenas’s interdisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, video animation, and murals, crafting immersive environments where the tangible and the imaginary intertwine. His work draws deeply from pre-Columbian art and European modernism—two distant yet perceptually transformative traditions—fusing realism and abstraction into compositions rich in ancestral symbolism that point toward a mysterious, uncertain future. In his painted and sculptural works, Cárdenas frequently employs impossible perspectives and fantastical landscapes inhabited by creatures that straddle the organic and the surreal. Through these elements, he creates sensory-rich experiences that invite reflection on the human relationship to the natural world. Across all media, Cárdenas questions established artistic languages—from surrealism to street art—reinterpreting them to propose a fresh visual vocabulary rooted in experimentation and open-ended meaning. His visual lexicon speaks to both present realities and speculative futures, inviting viewers into a poetic space where perception, memory, and myth coexist ...
