Juan Davila has been a leading protagonist in the development of post-conceptual painting though a practice that draws on a striking array of references including religious, modernist and avant-garde art, Latin American folk art, pornographic and pop cultural motifs, and post-colonialist and psychoanalytic discourse. More recently, Davila has turned to the genres of landscape, portraiture and history painting to question the sweep of modernity and colonisation, the rapaciousness of late capitalism, and environmental degradation.
