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It is human nature to derive logic and to assimilate disjointed events, or abstract elements, into coherent systems of order. To transpose codes of meaning from gesture and behavior is an extension of this. Aceves’s paintings perpetuate and invert such systems of order. By choosing to paint animals, human’s are removed, but their shadow is ever present in the uncertainty of actions played out in the works.
The environments of aceves’s paintings relate closely to familiar urban spheres, creating touch points of reference that heighten the links of the figures not just to human environment and habitat, but also to one that is close to our own. What aceves creates is an alternate specter of reality, parallel and removed, but tangential and in that recognizable. Creating fictional, theatrical and cinematic spaces the paintings propagate a sense of margin and edge. Ambiguous borders of time and place are caught within marginal interior spaces, deep-set unforgiving nights and darkened vacuous landscapes.
Charles Danby
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