about

The asceticism of lines

Teddy Ros is a prolific artist who has undergone numerous artistic and personal experimentations. His seminal practice is drawing, yet he also expresses himself through sculpture, collage, photography, and video. Over time, his work has evolved from highly detailed narratives, consciously connected to the world of illustration, toward more formal and radical explorations. In these, he calls upon scientific plates in an attempt to catalogue contemporary territories and their symbolic and visual imagination.

This is evidenced by his latest series, *I dent ité*, which immerses us in the graphic and scriptural study of a “science” oscillating between fantasy and reality—“dentosophy.” Also a shaman, having practiced asceticism and plant-based healing in the Amazon for eight years, in the spirit of Joseph Beuys, he has developed a holistic philosophy and a systemic approach to the world, where invisible forces form a central theme of creation and self-knowledge. His practice thus finds meaning only when connected to each person’s identity—the visible and invisible “self.” What drives the artist is the striking dissonance between one’s self-perception and the way others perceive it, within both social and intimate contexts.

This awareness, which has permeated his work for over fifteen years, represents for him a vital condition of healing — just as he himself has healed through his art. These “care practices,” which he regards as an “artist’s imperative,” are particularly evident in his collages. Through them, he revisits and imbues his entire artistic trajectory with both meaning and care, in an attempt to move from the painful personal to the universally bearable. In this way, Teddy Ros continues, with singular and integral freedom, to explore and transcend the boundaries of drawing.