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Juliana Hoyos (Manizales, 1992) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the limits of observation and the processes through which images are constructed. Working across photography, installation, sound, moving image, and research-based artistic processes, she explores how light, time, technological mediation, and systems of observation shape our experience of reality.
Rooted in what she describes as luminous minimalism, her work operates at the threshold of visibility, creating situations where images emerge, dissolve, or remain suspended between appearance and disappearance. Through subtle interventions, material translations, and perceptual shifts, she is interested in the moment when an image has not yet fully revealed itself, or has already begun to fade.
In recent years, her research has expanded into a dialogue with scientific imaging, astronomical observation, and contemporary technologies of perception. Drawing from optical instruments, visual archives, datasets, and observational systems, she investigates how images are mediated, translated, and interpreted across different scales of experience.
Influenced by phenomenology, optics, and the epistemology of the image, Hoyos approaches light not as a tool of representation but as a material condition through which reality becomes visible, unstable, and continuously reconstructed. Her practice proposes that perception is never neutral, and that what we see emerges through processes of interpretation, uncertainty, and imagination.
She currently lives and works in Barcelona.
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