“Looking at the paintings and reading the poems of Daniel
Correa Mejia, it is hard not to remark the deliberate modesty
of his enterprise. Generally small scale paintings on jute and
canvas are paired with short, disarmingly simple poems.
The subject matter of the paintings is reflected in the subject
matter of what he writes: it is at once a form of world building
(attributing symbolic content to forms and colors) and a
holistic attempt to situate the human animal’s relationship to
nature– not as something apart from it, but a part of it– as
well as the cycle of life. This work asks about and seeks to find
solutions not to contemporary, but timeless problems, which
touch upon the cosmological. Given the political climate of
the past four years as well as the climate crisis, not to mention
the current, on-going global pandemic, all of which have
contributed to a largely reactive, survivalist mode of existence,
such fundamental issues as dwelt upon here by Correa Mejia
are liable to seem like quaint luxuries.
They have a strange, exotic and semi-incomprehensible allure.
It’s as if while you were evading the homicidal wrath of some
far right extremist, and their hatred of, well, everything, the
latest large-scale natural disaster, and trying not to catch
a fatal virus, you suddenly caught a glimpse into a much
more interconnected way of being. Initially, it doesn’t make
sense, would seem to be little more than the idle past time of
more disengaged people– but pause to reflect for a moment
and you will be obliged to realize that this is crucial stuff.
This is the stuff that prevents enduring the other stuff from
being meaningless. For while there are certainly undeniable
virtues to survival (ask any animal), they themselves are not
necessarily what make life worth living. Here is Daniel Correa
Mejia’s modest, but poignant contribution to our collective
need and search for meaning. May it offer you a precious
moment of relief and increase your belief in the timelessly
untimely necessities of life”.

mor charpentier

Berlin

Medellín

São Paulo

Mendes Wood Dm

New York City

Fortnight Institute

London

Public Gallery

Daniel Correa Mejía

Semen de estrellas

Soledad

Totalidad