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their names suarez, with its roots as a surname for pig herders and solis, with its ties to Asturias, brands them with a dialectical identity, heritage, and worldview.
sebastian suarez-solis is a sonic and visual artist, firm in their Venezuelan roots, active as a composer, instrumentalist, and collaborative improviser.
as a general student of sonics and light
i am always eager to find new ways and of looking at, listening to, creating, and blending sounds, and how those sounds intersect with that which is visual.
as a queer Latinx composer
i am a staunch fighter for representation of systemically excluded peoples and intersections thereof. ergo, i often make pieces related to the struggles and unique experiences i would want to see represented, recorded.
as advocate for mental & physical health dialogue
i believe that the way to extinguish the myth of the “tortured genius” trope is through vehement and uninhibited declamation of experiences inherent to those who suffer with mental health conditions. to me, it is perhaps only through discussion and validation of the experiences that so many people live through that such stigma can decline.
these struggles lead to style
big ideas that are extremely contrasted, a little bitter, and definitely indulgent. while I make deference to tradition, my output is definably modern, capricious even, grounded in the mores of polystylism. more than anything, i am interested in personal artistic liberation and freedom of voice; through individual processes that are given varying degrees of freedom, a dialectic of sorts is created, a struggle between voices. like reeds in a pond – or more directly, like historical patterns rising and falling over time – these voices ebb and flow, a distillation of la lucha.
