axel void
untitled
Oil painting on plexiglass and wood with LEDs, 2022
ABOUT THE artist
This is a painting of the house where Jayland Walker and Jaymeisha Beasley lived together. This piece is dedicated to their friends and families.
Known under the pseudonym Axel Void, Alejandro Hugo Dorda Mevs was born in Miami in 1986 to a Haitian mother and a Spanish father, with biographical roots in Haiti, Miami and Andalusia. He was raised in Spain from the age of three, where he was strongly influenced by classical painting and drawing. Axel Void has been in contact with graffiti writing since 1999. He studied Fine Arts in Cádiz, Granada, and Sevilla, and based himself in Berlin until moving to Miami in 2013. He currently resides in Cadiz, Spain.
Axel is a multimedia artist driven by a passionate interest in the art of storytelling, human behavior and the inter-relational narrative to which art contributes as a form of communication. Inspired by truth in all its forms Axel’s compositions are presented with an almost journalistic intrigue. With a focus on people as part of a global community he explores the cultural and social structures which regulate our interactions and habits. The ordinary is elevated through his passionate reimagining, and whether disturbing or whimsical all compositions exist in search of a journalistic journey towards truth. Through painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, music, writing and video installation, Axel's characters ascend to metaphors for the human condition; mourned or celebrated as they are contextualized through our collective memory, as well as curating as tools to intervene inside and outside the conventional exhibition space.