+++Artist of the month / June 2024+++

Emmanuel Zúñiga is an intermedia artist born and raised in Costa Rica and currently immigrating to Canada. He grew up between his father’s sculpture shop and the sacred art business of his grandparents and uncles, yet he studied painting at the University of Costa Rica, and now is more interested in installation art. Emmanuel’s practice is centered in the interrelationship between medium and technology as a physical condensation of information, so he usually pays attention to the material and technical processes within the production of things. He disassembles, combines, and reorganizes deposed and new objects, materials, and technologies to build scenarios and things in which enigmatic associations trigger alternative narratives to our capitalist notion of progress. Thus,

+++Artist of the month / June 2024+++

Emmanuel Zúñiga is an intermedia artist born and raised in Costa Rica and currently immigrating to Canada. He grew up between his father’s sculpture shop and the sacred art business of his grandparents and uncles, yet he studied painting at the University of Costa Rica, and now is more interested in installation art. Emmanuel’s practice is centered in the interrelationship between medium and technology as a physical condensation of information, so he usually pays attention to the material and technical processes within the production of things. He disassembles, combines, and reorganizes deposed and new objects, materials, and technologies to build scenarios and things in which enigmatic associations trigger alternative narratives to our capitalist notion of progress. Thus, Emmanuel’s intention is to invite viewers to stage other realities by reflecting on their own sensorial experience of the artworks.

Emmanuel is winner of the National Hall of Visual Arts in the three-dimensional category with “The fish-tank” (2022), organized by the Costa Rican Art Museum, as well as two-time winner of the Elspeth McConnell Fine Arts Award (2023-24), given by the Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts to work at the Atelier La Coulée. Emmanuel has also represented the Performing Arts Memory of Costa Rica before the XIV Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Czech Republic (2019), and participated at the residency Raptors: reflection and action (2019), directed by the nicaraguan artist Patricia Belli. Emmanuel has a postgraduate degree in painting from the University of Costa Rica and is currently majoring in Intermedia (video, performance, and electronic arts) in Concordia university.