“The contemporaneity has built new imaginaries from the "reality" that surrounds and confines them to a world where visual perception is a prevailing instrument for building an iconic acquis.
The portrait, as a way of documenting the existence of the other, has a long tradition, however, Juan Melo takes the shape of the image from the stain, make a series of portraits of his contemporaries, by the way he perceives them, not with a desire to portray reality as nature but as artifice. Rather than portraying characters, he portrays attitudes. The artist makes a description of his contemporaneity in every sense of the word. by using artificial lighting without leaving the color and,
This is the proposal that this time must be faced from a ludic possibility and the willingness to cool the eyes in the brightness of your pictures."