Gibrán Turón

Multidisciplinary visual artist Gibrán Turón explores a wide range of creative fields, from digital and editorial illustration to screen printing, risography, drawing, painting, and large-scale muralism. His work emerges from the fragmented passages of the mundane, from the in-between spaces we see and traverse but often fail to notice. Turón’s artistic process begins with the unveiling of images, texts, and objects he founds in the streets, which he then semantically dislocates to confront the homogenization of needs, the standardization of meaning, and the normalization of behaviors.

Gibrán Turón’s work develops through this playful, multi-semantic process—a close anthropology that makes the artist a narrator of events, an interpreter of the city’s arteries. In any of his proposals, Turón acts as an aesthetic surveyor, metaphorically measuring the urban landscape; an ethnologist of allegories; a botanist of sidewalks; a flâneur; an alchemical reader seeking to uncover a significant universe that does not immediately reveal itself but emerges through the contemplative idleness of unhurried investigations. His distinctive expressiveness stems from his sensitivity to understanding otherness: the language of the urban environment, of cities—many and diverse. His creations delve into decontextualized daily life, otherness, absurdity, error, borders, the margins between the normal and the strange, and the street—a free source of references, stories, and characters that materialize in reconstruction through thought, memory, imagination, and the artist’s dreamlike space.