Greba Orokorra (General Strike)

Born in Columbia, and now based in London, Alejandro Ospina creates electrifying paintings that seek to reflect an image-saturated and increasingly interconnected world. ‘I try to work in ways that reflect continuous changes in attention at a rate and method that would have seemed absurd before the arrival of the Internet,’ he explains, ‘simulating what happens in our minds when we jump from image to image accumulating and merging layers of visual information. I want the work to reflect how the Internet has mutated the way we look at sets of images or contemplate a stream of information.’ Included in the Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition Pangaea II: New Art from Africa and Latin America in 2015, Greba Orokorra (2013) was created by using Photoshop to filter, dissect and reconstruct images the artist found online, before transferring the results to canvas. Figural fragments and abstract textures flicker in and out of focus, creating a dizzying kaleidoscope of pattern, colour and form. Shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2010, Ospina has exhibited throughout North and South America and the UK, at institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota.