Synthetic Nature. Alejandro Monge

As a starting point, in this exhibition Alejandro Monge introduces us to the concept of synthetic nature, an idea that runs through part of his work and redefines the relationship between the organic, the artificial, and the constructed. This nature does not seek to imitate the natural world, but rather to generate its own reality, in which matter acquires new rules, forms, and meanings.

In Monge’s work, cement, pigments, and resins give shape to large, medium, and small-scale structures that incorporate sculptures of everyday human figures, placed in environments that seem suspended between the real and the constructed. The artist reveals himself here as a storyteller of the world in which he lives, using these scenes to bear witness to his time and to contemporary society. These figures, integrated into this artificial landscape, build a universe that belongs to this synthetic nature, a reflection of the diversity, tension, and complexity of the present. Monge does not seek to portray anyone, but rather to use a neutral figure as a universal icon. His works, as if eroded by time, speak of trace and transcendence within a reality that is neither natural nor artificial in a strict sense, but rather a new form of matter: a synthetic nature that contains both the visible and the invisible at the same time.